In Which I Get to be a Grammar Nazi
rogersgeorge on July 4th, 2023
I’ll let the grammar nazi, Mike Peterson, do the talking today. Here’s the comic, an unsigned New Yorker item:
“Whoever drew it, it got a chuckle, but it also got a flinch for something unrelated to the point of the gag.
“While I try not to be a grammar nazi, those signs bug me. There are rules about speculation against fact — Tevye sings “If I were a rich man,” not “if I was a rich man” — and the signs should read “Drive as if your child lived here.”
“Dagnabbit.
“I like the concept, but I correct it in my mind every time I go past one, and they’re everywhere.”
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/05/25/csotd-the-dagnabbit-files/
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