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Grammar, anyone?
Dec. 23rd, 2006 04:43 pmI decided to spend the day at home. Luckily, those of you who helped out with my poll agreed with me, by a scant majority. I'm just too lazy to be trekking all over creation. I'll have to find someone with a car willing to go on a shopping trip at some point.
Meantime, I've spent the day cozily snuggled up with my computer, reading fic. Later, I will watch The Sound of Music on TV. I also swept the apartment, which goes remarkably far in making it look less like a dump. And now I'm getting ready to write some fic of my own. More SGA fic, which no one will read, but I don't seem able to shake the need to write it anyway.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I find MS Word's grasp of grammar to be remarkable, in the sense that it has absolutely no sense of grammar whatsoever and yet continually tries to correct mine anyway. The sentence that is currently tying the program in knots is:
So she posses up Lorne's team with some extra marines and sends them in.
Now, the options Word is offering me are either: So she posses up Lorne's team with some extra marines and send them in.
or...
So a she posse up Lorne's team with some extra marines and sends them in.
That second one is the one that absolutely kills me with laughter. This is why I rely on my own somewhat fuzzy grade school memories for grammar, rather than actually accepting most of Word's suggestions.
Meantime, I've spent the day cozily snuggled up with my computer, reading fic. Later, I will watch The Sound of Music on TV. I also swept the apartment, which goes remarkably far in making it look less like a dump. And now I'm getting ready to write some fic of my own. More SGA fic, which no one will read, but I don't seem able to shake the need to write it anyway.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I find MS Word's grasp of grammar to be remarkable, in the sense that it has absolutely no sense of grammar whatsoever and yet continually tries to correct mine anyway. The sentence that is currently tying the program in knots is:
So she posses up Lorne's team with some extra marines and sends them in.
Now, the options Word is offering me are either: So she posses up Lorne's team with some extra marines and send them in.
or...
So a she posse up Lorne's team with some extra marines and sends them in.
That second one is the one that absolutely kills me with laughter. This is why I rely on my own somewhat fuzzy grade school memories for grammar, rather than actually accepting most of Word's suggestions.
