Funny Comments and Images on Grammar
62 Grammar Memes And Jokes From 2019
Oh, you like the Oxford comma? Name every instance it's resolved ambiguity.
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We really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really need you to capitalize the F in BuzzFeed
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"X is a made up word." Please, tell me more about the all natural words that grew on the word bushes and were harvested by the word farmers in bushels and sent to the word market.
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You're throwing an *Oscars* party, not an *Oscar* party, and also why won't anyone invite me
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people after I start editing in AP style: are you ok? me: yeah, I'm fine :) my headphones: Oxford Comma – Vampire Weeknd 2:45 ━━━━━━❍── 3:16 ↻ ⊲ Ⅱ ⊳ ↺ volume: ▁▂▃▄▅▆▇ 100%
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my therapist: so how depressed would you say you've been feeling lately? me: well i've been using more commas and semicolons than em dashes my therapist [scribbling notes]: holy shit
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the only fan edit of captain marvel i want is someone adding a comma on the "thank you stan" opening card
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Love the new Star Wars trailer. Cried at the title. The placement of the "The" is genius.
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The #MuellerReport is indeed a national disgrace. By which of course I mean the double spaces after the periods.
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Us at the beginning of the decade: Hmm, maybe we could lowercase "Internet"? us at the end of the decade: all capitalization is meaningless unless you're entering a password
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My extremely cool and patient middle-of-the-night copy editor, who has never seen GoT, keeps changing "direwolf" to "dire wolf" and I never want to tell her because I like having her think that I keep using the same weird adjective when describing wolves.
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I have used two tiny dashes in the copy I just turned in and which You will have to turn into an em dash Forgive me it was way easier and I literally cannot for the life of me ever, ever remember how make an em dash
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flight attendant: is there a doctor on board? dad: *nudge* could've been you copy editor: *sigh* flight attendant: we need someone to explain dangling modifiers dad: what? copy editor: see!!!
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keys to being a good editor - jump in the writer's google doc and rapidly highlight arbitrary pieces of text while they're writing - go to the top of the doc while they're trying to type and just go to town on backspace/enter - comment "?" on every 35th word no matter what it is
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No copy editor has all three: • an understanding of the proofreading marks • no typos in their emails • a laissez-faire attitude about the Oxford comma
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Me, writing an email: I'm using an exclamation point so you know I'm friendly and excited! But now I'm using a period so that you know I'm not crazy. Here's another sentence with a period as a buffer, proving my normalness. Thanks so much!
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Hi, I'm a BuzzFeed copy editor. You might know me from some of my greatest hits like "the 'f' is capitalized," "use the singular they," "pleaded not pled," and "Jay-Z is hyphenated (again)." https://t.co/c6vl60D8Ec
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I keep parsing this heading as a poetic description of what happens in quantum physics.
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hyphen - easy to miss - entry-level punctuation - unremarkable en dash - easy on the eyes - bridges divides - galactic flex
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Thinking, as I often do, about the time Yahoo News thought "Zooey Deschanel divorces Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard" meant she had left a man named Death Cab to pursue a relationship with the lead singer of the band Cutie
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I just took a D N A test T U R N S out Im a h u n d r e d PER cent not going to use the % sign as AP style now suggests
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Stop talking shit about punctuation em dashes are VERSATILE commas are COMPLEX colons are ICONIC semicolons periods are ESSENTIAL
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Thinking about how Baby Yoda's name is actually "the Child" but we've all collectively renamed him, and usage is really what matters at the end of the day, right?
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Quick punctuation lesson: Hyphen (-): connects two words En-dash (–): indicates a range, e.g. 2–8 Em-dash (—): Ahhh, you seek to understand its ways, weary traveler. Nay, behold! This dash provides to you whichever function you most require. You need only listen as it whispers…
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the signs as punctuation: Aries ! Taurus . Gemini " Cancer , Leo () Virgo ~ Libra — Scorpio ' Sagittarius : Capricorn / Aquarius ? Pisces -
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Okay, folks. Here's a thing that no one asked for but that I think we all need: the style guide alignment chart.
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TFW you change "chairman" to "chair," "fireman" to "firefighter," "spokesman" to "spokesperson," etc.:
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Source: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emersonmalone/grammar-language-memes-punctuation-2019
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