NOT EVEN AMERICAN: She can’t walk, and now we learn she can’t even talk good English! Conservatives are not impressed with Sotomayor’s over-use of commas — because wingnuts are famous for their exquisite writing and grammar skills. [Andrew Sullivan]
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Anyone ever read the first draft of Sarah Palin’s speech/announcement of her candidacy for mayor of Wasilla? It is a children’s treasury of deathnails into the wilting hide of English language.
Suck a dick, wingnuts.
Uh Ken, dude, your best example of bad grammar from a Republican is from Twitter, where everyone is required to abbreviate to fit the short message length? Can’t you just get Riley to look up just about any major Republican speech, including Palin’s recent Newt-down? After all, what are interns for if not to do your basic research and frequent pleasuring of the Chief Editor? Also.
More ‘Pot and the Kettle’ wisdom from the home-skooled.
I have no problems with excessive commas but I do draw the line at exclamation points. I’d be against the nomination of Jesus if it were discovered he used exclamation points.
It contains both glaring bloopers and more subtly off-key notes that demonstrate a deafness to the conventions of English style.
We’re talking about Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin?
[re=334881]Hooray For Anything[/re]: I received an email from a rather young engineering professor in which each sentence ended with “!!!” or “???”. I was going to write back and tell her to save some for later- but I didn’t.
Yeah well, at least it’s not in ALL CAPS!11 GODDAMN IT!1
Dammit, who let the Republicans in on the secret of literacy?
Actually, we’re talking about Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and Michelle Malkin. Wait! Actually, we’re talking about Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Chuck Grassley, and Michelle Malkin.
Oh me, oh my. Can’t you smell the Republican flop sweat in the air? It drenches us all like summer humidity. And wingnutz of all agendas understand that when all else fails, when your boob who’s currently on the stump can suck a baseball through 100 feet of garden hose, you can always fall back on bigotry. Huzzah for hate!
I, too, am, unqualified.
[re=334886]finallyhappy[/re]: A woman engineering professor? That’s crazy talk. I entertained the hypothesis that it’s just women who lack the ability to use proper punctuation. Then I remembered Sara K. Smith, and intern Juli. We should submit this problem to scientists from Regent University.
[re=334882]BillyClubb[/re]: Just because you dislike commas doesn’t give you license to ignore them completely, people!
[re=334886]finallyhappy[/re]: Back when I did online dating, I’d automatically disqualify anyone if they used exclamation points. Unless they were really hot, of course.
GET A BRIAN, MORANS!
Fuck, them.
[re=334903]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]: I’ve always enjoyed boys named Brian. They’re very considerate lovers.
The key to the Republican comeback?
Comma splices and subtle off-key notes. It can’t fail!
What are we coming to in America that we are about to confirm a Supreme Court justice who OVERUSES COMMAS, for GOD’S SAKES!!!!!
[re=334881]Hooray For Anything[/re]: My pet peeve is people who punctuate sentences with ellipses. Their writing is like this…It’s horrible…What are they thinking?…Fuck em all
Can we just call them Retardlicans for a while?
[re=334881]Hooray For Anything[/re]: How dare you! Exclamation marks are great!! What do you have against them?!? You’ll take my punctuation , from my cold, dead, hands!!!
[re=334916]Godot[/re]: wow, how does the Ellipse get into this? Don’t start on my man, Barack, again.
[re=334918]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Yes.
Next thing they’ll bitch about is her raspy ‘too butch’ voice (which actually kind of annoys me).
Well, well, well. I, the Sarah Palin, do not, really not, enjoy reading books, magazines, and, particularly, legal opinions, except comic books, some of them, like Wonder Woman and the early Spidey, when, you know, they are full of commas and other liberal school stuffs, which is what I talk like on any normal, sunny, Alaska day in New York, down in the lower 50, where I just had a neat conversation with Sean Hannity, who tried to cop a feel, but, anyway. Judge Sotomajor, who will never be played by Tina Fey, and that bitch Katie Couric, because she is so, like, fat and has that broken ankle pity party going, hates America because she does n’t do good in English-American. Also.
I think we can sum up the cluelessness-singularity that is the National Review with a pithy aphorism: “Those who live in glasses houses shouldn’t throw pebbles lest they be hit with an iridium-laden asteroid the size of Mount Everest traveling at 20 miles per second.”
It would have been pithier if I had said “glass houses.”
[re=334916]Godot[/re]:
Shit… that’s me in a nutshell.
I heard she was into the Comma Sutra.
Breaking: Lynne Truss will be called in to perform a public execution of Soto for egregious use of commas, shameless deployment of semicolons, and an inappropriate overpopulation of gerunds.
[re=334875]magic titty[/re]: Since we’re all on grammar and shit, did you mean death knells or actually mean “deathnails,” like in Obamba hammering nails in Grassley’s head? If the later is the case, thanks for the visual.
I ‘member when Dubya was the prez’nit and he used to go to teh other countries. He said the children there must be really smart because they can all speak teh foreign languages.
“Without the assistance of a law clerk.” Oh why doesn’t the NR just say, without a white guy from Harvard at her side, she can’t write in complete sentences, because she is a dirty Puerto Rican. And they have launched the libel that she does not write her own opinions becuase she can’t, of course, being an illiterate bodega clerk. Never ceases to amaze me how these conservative hacks, even after taking a proper beating on the curve for three years in law school by people like Judge Sotomayor, just can’t admit that they are not as smart as the brown face they are looking at.
[re=334940]Country Club Jihadi[/re]: A, Win!
[re=334944]Ignorman[/re]: I actually meant death nails, but you’re correct grammatically. Obliged.
[re=334947]totoro[/re]:
Seriously… why don’t they just come out and say it: this lady should be washing my clothes and taking care of my kids, not authoring legal decisions.
Excessive commas starts the slippery slope to Marxism, destroying the Constituttion and banning Furries. You heard it here first, also.
“Harriet Miers’s nomination to the Supreme Court was appalling in large part because of the embarrassing mediocrity of her writing.”
Really? I don’t recall that part of it. I recall everyone being outraged because Harriet Miers had something like 0% experience on the bench and had basically served as Bush’s foot masseuse for the past 4 years or whatever. I don’t remember anything about her writing. But maybe it was just that unremarkable?
However, Miers’ writing skills were excellent.
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http://volokh.com/posts/1128666588.shtml
— In an initial chat with [Harriet] Miers, according to several people with knowledge of the exchange, Leahy asked her to name her favorite Supreme Court justices. Miers responded with “Warren” — which led Leahy to ask her whether she meant former Chief Justice Earl Warren, a liberal icon, or former Chief Justice Warren Burger, a conservative who voted for Roe v. Wade. Miers said she meant Warren Burger, the sources said. —
She could try to win them over by telling her family salsa recipe, but sadly, the measurements are in metric, somehow resulting in an even bigger shitstorm over nothing.
Fiery latinas with bad punctuation – call me. Just call me, OK?
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Have you ever, I ask, rhetorically, while sitting in my cube, ignoring my work, eating a stale sandwich, read a document written by above, below, and just-so average, over-paid, native-born, U.S. American attorneys? The overuse, misuse, and even, it is sad to say, lack of use in certain places, where normally required, is, to say the least, enough, you will see, to make Kate Turabian rise from her grave, and strangle them all with her cold, dead, zombie hands.
The Oxford comma is racist.
[re=334971]magic titty[/re]: Like coffin nails, only more deathy.
Don’t we, all, insert commas randomly?
Does the NRO really want to go there? Because, when one starts getting all douche-y about grammar, one’s own writing tends to fall apart.
The National Review, online or in print, can share one (1) bag of dicks (penises?), to eat. Because they are backwards, intellectually incurious fucktards.
[re=335022]WIDTAP[/re]: Haha. Exactly…or something.
[re=334916]Godot[/re]: There is one person I must do business with who punctuates his emails not with ellipses, but with multiple commas,,,like this,,,and I can’t figure out why,,,and it makes me want to swing his keyboard like a baseball bat at his head,,,but I can’t because although he is clearly retarded he is also a client.
[re=334992]McDuff[/re]: Great use of those things that look like peirods, except that, don’t ya know, they have little hooky tails and look like upside-down boogers. — Sarah P.
Wasn’t it just the other day G. Gordon Liddy was complaining about her periods?
But seriously, Andrew Sullivan asserting that Sotomayor isn’t a good writer?
Pot, kettle, black. Marmite.
The simpletons are so commical.
Hey, Conservatives: The Da Vinci Code, a “book” that has sold nearly 100 million copies and has been translated into more than 40 languages, is filled with all those creative punctuation marks and is written in sentence fragments and mini-paragraphs. According to Wiki, “In a 2008 survey of more than 15,000 Australian readers, the book came in fourth in a list of the 101 best books ever written.” You expect your Supreme Justices to write different than Dan Brown, The Greatest Author of All Time???? When, meanwhile, their Opinions (that’s like a book, see Andrew Sullivan) could be entertaining ALL of America, not to mention Australians, who are the closest thing we have to Americans aside from Alaskans??!?!1?
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