Grammar fascists
19 December 2006 • grammar, politics, quote
From Think Progress:
Q You’re not disagreeing with him?
MR. SNOW: I’m just —- I’m not playing the game anymore. It’s one of these things where you end up —- it all ends up trying to —- you’re trying to summarize a complex situation with a single word or gerund, or even a participle.
It’s the -ing that’s confusing him, I guess.
stevenberg.net » WYSIWYG says:
19 December 2006 at 15:49
[…] I spend more time fixing its markup weird errors than I would spend typing in all the markup myself. For example, the previous post has a two-paragraph block quote, for which the WYSIWYG editor managed to create four blockquote blocks: one for each paragraph and two empty ones! […]