Re: health warning (Do Not Open)

>I'd like to add, though, that Matthew has a legitimate concern. My
>girlfriend is a FREAK about grammar. Her High School teachers would fail
>her
>for a single sentence fragment in any of her papers (not fail her for the
>class, but for that paper). She will AGONIZE over her sentences, she will
>SUFFER for them, but seldom, seldom, will she WRITE them -- getting her to
>finish something she's written is like pulling teeth sometimes. She
>sometimes sounds like the purpose of good writing is to follow grammatical
>rules rather than to communicate, instead of thinking that the purpose of
>grammatical rules is to help communication.
>
>Our most bitter argument was over my use of a comma in something I'd
>written. I felt like the sentence needed a pause. She said my use of the
>comma was incorrect. I showed her in a grammar that a comma is an option
>in
>that situation. The comma is now one of those subjects we try to
>discreetly
>avoid.
>
>Usually.
>
>She feels convinced that my grammar was wrong :). Or has blocked what it
>said out of her memory.
>
>Jim

Dear Load Jim,

While we are on the subjec of grammatical rules, or have at least broached
it, must I remind you how repellent those smiley faces are?
I just can't stop picturing your penmanship as one plagued by infectious
smatterings of heart dotted "i's" and wavy crossed "t's". Please, once more,
I implore you, dispense with the pithy expressions.Also,
your girlfriend is off-base. Your grammar was not wrong, it is just
maladjusted. A few more more readings of I'm O.K Your Ok and a pich of
Thackeray will suffice as a treatment, for now.

Yours,

John Gedsudski, m.m.
Adjunct Professor of Judges
Philistia Community College
507 Boorish Drive
NY,NY

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Received on Thu Sep 5 16:47:21 2002