Tag: grammar
member name: Thomas Millington
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January 20, 2008 01:21 PM EST --
Vector Mornington of Tweedsville, Ohio, reports that the town council has just approved the hiring of a grammar watchdog to work under Police Chief Deke Reese. The duties of this new protector and . . .
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July 03, 2008 11:25 AM EDT --
Which way are we as Americans and as human beings headed? There are only two ways to go - either forward or backward; we cannot stand still.
In the fields of science, medicine and communications . . .
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March 09, 2008 03:50 PM EDT --
I have witnessed every grammatical atrocity imaginable perpetrated here on Gather. From improper word usage, to spelling errors, to the most heinous slang. Where will it all end? Our . . .
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August 31, 2008 06:45 PM EDT --
Words, words, words. They can be soothing, melodious, enlightening, and welcomed. Or they can be barbaric, and pernicious, whether oral or written.
I have compiled a short list of words . . .
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March 06, 2008 03:39 PM EST --
After having read many hundreds of articles and comments on Gather I must come to the conclusion that a considerable number of Americans are somewhat less than functionally literate. The United . . .
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June 30, 2009 11:12 AM EDT --
If you cannot, or will not, post what you want to say using plain, simple English words, correctly spelled, used correctly according to generally accepted standards, then I will not read your article, . . .
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October 20, 2007 07:28 PM EDT --
Since becoming a member of Gather just over a year ago I have had occasion to read hundreds of articles and even more comments published on the site by other members. It would appear to me that, . . .
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August 10, 2008 03:50 PM EDT --
After having read, or been exposed to, countless posts/articles written in the most atrocious form of English, I have decided to create a group where those of us who have some appreciation for our language . . .
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May 30, 2007 04:11 PM EDT --
I have been a member of Gather for less than a year now and am enjoying the experience immensly. During that period of time I have read, or tried to read, a great many articles and comments posted . . .
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May 31, 2007 12:13 PM EDT --
From my own personal observations it seems that half of the Gather members seen things. This is not a perfectly scientific conclusion, just a feeling based on reading hundreds of articles and comments . . .
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January 16, 2008 01:05 PM EST --
I have published quite a number of articles and comments on Gather since I joined this esteemed site about a year and a half ago. And I have probably read twice as many of other members' postings. . . .
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June 03, 2007 03:31 AM EDT --
For all of you Gatherites who get irked when someone, who may be writing an interesting or thought- provoking article or comment, uses sloppy grammar, improper capitalization or punctuation or a slang . . .
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January 12, 2009 10:35 AM EST --
Also called L uciferous Logolepsy, embolalia is a speech defect characterized by the interjection of meaningless filler words such as "you know", "um", repetitive grunts or stammerings . . .
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