gdp's Comments

The Truth About Grammar : Stay Smart, Georgia

Tue, 15 May 2012 21:33:39 +0000

The State is not asking the company what list it shipped. Read it again. The company ships computers to customers. The State wants a list of customers to which the company sent products. Therefore, it wants to know the details of orders that were shipped. Unfortunately, it asked for details of orders that was shipped.

The Truth About Grammar : Many Fathers Celebrate Father's Day

Mon, 7 May 2012 15:55:05 +0000

And why not make Juke Joint a different color in addition to bolding, italicizing, and placing in single quotation marks?

The Truth About Grammar : Want to Appear Illiterate?

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:52:59 +0000

No, you don't get it. Which of the following sound(s) correct? A) Eating 100 lollipops will rot your teeth. B) Eating a 100 lollipops will rot your teeth. C) Eating a hundred lollipops will rot your teeth. and I) 1001 Nights II) A 1001 Nights III) One Thousand and One Nights Review the rules of indefinite articles, numerals, and numbers. -Jeff

The Truth About Grammar : From the George W. Bush School of Grammar

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 03:07:00 +0000

Companies are people. Supreme Court ruled so.

The Truth About Grammar : Costomes for Costomers

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:16:03 +0000

Hah, good eye! Looks like I need new glasses.

The Truth About Grammar : Semicolons Are Female???

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 21:32:50 +0000

Thanks, asshole, but that doesn't explain how a semicolon is like a woman with loose morals. Also, why not use your real e-mail address?

The Garage : The Buick Regal

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 04:05:04 +0000

Paragraphs . . . please!

The Truth About Grammar : Who needs the unecessary E's?

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:45:29 +0000

When writing a headline, it's acceptable to pluralize a single letter with an apostrophe. Consider if the unnecessary letter was A. "Who needs the unecessary As" is confusing without context, no? I'm surprised no one has commented on the unecessary n I omitted from unnecessary.

The Truth About Grammar : For Insurance Fraud?

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:07:18 +0000

It might be standard, but it's not good.

The Truth About Grammar : I'm This Close to Giving Up (> <)

Wed, 2 Feb 2011 05:44:35 +0000

I laughed, too . . . and then I weeped.

The Truth About Grammar : ModBee ModFail

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 22:18:16 +0000

I disagree. Until is more formal, thus it is the appropriate form for a news headline. Till may substitute for to in Scots and other dialects, but in American English newspaper style it's rare. I searched Google News for "till," and of the first 30 results only two US sources used till as a substitute for to (one was a blog). The rest were Indian and British. This reminds me of words like learnt and spelt, which are perfectly acceptable in Britain/Australia/New Zealand but not in the USA.

The Truth About Grammar : How Stupid Is Wired?

Sat, 9 Oct 2010 01:35:30 +0000

Ford is a separate brand from Lincoln. You wouldn't say that you drive a Honda Acura TSX or Nissan Infiniti QX56.

The Truth About Grammar : What Would Jeff Do?

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:35:33 +0000

I am puzzled especially by "bidder's" and then "dont' ". WTF?!

Speed:Sport:Life : Avoidable Contact #27: The end, and the beginning, of great Japanese cars.

Fri, 7 Aug 2009 02:26:23 +0000

". . . unlovable VQ" You take that back, Jack! My VQ30DE is smoother than a baby's butt all the way up to and past redline and I love it more than food. And that's sayin' something! I've often thought that the Japanese market collapse scared the crap out of the Asian automakers. The collapse precipitated profound changes in the culture of the country, especially its business culture. No longer were company men guaranteed a lifetime job; layoffs, an unthinkable act, were made; and the mega manufacturing conglomerates were hit hard by the currency crisis. The result, in my opinion, was a move to "safe, conservative" vehicles by T, H, and N. The bread-and-butter sedans, CUVs, and SUVs were allocated the most resources and they returned big profits. Low-volume sports coupes and wagons were killed off, for the most part. The demand for relatively inexpensive, economical vehicles in their home country has them well-positioned to supply modern, "sensible" cars for the rest of the world's collapsing markets. The teens decade of this century may turn out to be the battle of the compacts. I don't count Japan out just yet.

The Truth About Grammar : Count the Errors: Cars Edition!

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:31:34 +0000

Just found out the comment was made by an Executive VP at a company in North Carolina. Unbelievable!

The Truth About Grammar : Happy Forth of July! Duh!

Wed, 8 Jul 2009 06:58:33 +0000

Test of the new commenting system.