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August 28, 2008 ~ 08:42:08 AM * -07:00ST
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Log # 59
Ninja’s
Let’s have a short grammar lesson about our friend, the apostrophe.
1 Ninja = Ninja.
>1 Ninja = Ninjas, or Ninja, depending on how strict you want to be about Japanese vs. English plural forms. >1 Ninja is also awesome.
If a Ninja owns something, that object is the Ninja’s.
If the Ninja is doing something or has done something, you may use a contraction like so: “That Ninja’s rubbing that pirate very briskly indeed.” In this case, “Ninja’s” replaces “Ninja is”. It can also replace “Ninja has”.*
If this were the Victorian era I would be mad at you for using contractions, but I think it’s silly to object to them these days.
Look, it’s okay. I don’t blame you, grammar wasn’t on my middle school curriculum, either. It’s all thanks to one rogue homeroom teacher that I know what I know. Lap up my wisdoms, monkeys. Writing smart goes a long way towards convincing other people that you’re intelligent, attractive, and most importantly: that your opinion is the correct one.
Do you understand this vast power I have bestowed upon you? Use it wisely.
(Who wants to bet that in my vast hubris, I have overlooked a massive grammatical, spelling, or factual error somewhere in this comment? Eh?)
* My periods are outside my quotes. I break this grammar rule consistantly and on purpose, because it’s STUPID. It’s an American thing that doesn’t make any sense whatsoever.
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Eliza Gauger on August 22nd, 2006 ~ 06:59:02 PM
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Comment by jeffreality on
August 23, 2006 at 10:19 am
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One other thing you do (that I do as well) is separate all clauses by commas (as in this, this, and this). The elimination of the last comma drives me crazy — it offends my logical programmer sensibilities.
Comment by Ole BLue on
August 23, 2006 at 12:26 pm
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I have noticed with great consternation that the smarter I am trying to sound in a post the more errors I make in the post.
Murphy’s law of grammer I would guess.
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November 25, 2006 at 11:23 pm
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