I thought I might get your attention there Ernie. Especially when this lady won the dismissal of a ticket because of a simple comma or lack there of.

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KOT

During the latest "Last Week Tonight," while John Oliver was discussing the four words at the basis of the latest challenge to Obamacare to make it all the way to the Supreme Court, John Oliver showed that we CAN sometimes understand unclear writing -- Justice Roberts called it "unartful writing," a phrase I might use -- even though the message as written is quite different from the intention.

Here's the example they showed. It exhorts our soccer girls to play their little hearts out, but as it's written it conveys something else:




There's a short comedy routine from the late 60s where a Brit talks about a sign found above the toilets in the bathrooms on the trains. It says GENTLEMEN LIFT THE LIDS. The guy asks, "What's the meaning of this? Is this a definition of a gentleman? Is it an invitation to upper class larceny?" The lack of a comma made the first one a possibility.

Then there's "eats, shoots, and leaves." I mean "eats shoots and leaves."

I love the irony of this subject being brought up by King of Typos. (KOT, it's "thereof," not "there of.")

It ain't just me, but thanks for noticing.

I'd like to know how much the fine was, and how much time this woman wasted to get her victory.

Let's eat Grandma.

Let's eat, Grandma.

Grammar saves lives!

Bad grammar is like an amateur equipment rack. It might get the job done but it looks like hell.

How much of your own time have you spent making a client's rack beyond functional, taking it to beautiful?
Did you do this without charging?
You mean, here's the rack-wiring equivalent of using the best grammar, and you didn't do it for free? You made the client pay for it? Where's my money for correcting your grammar?
Did the client even get a choice as to whether you were going to do the rack wiring equivalent of being sure to correctly use every comma, semicolon, or other grammatical thing that you think is petty to bother with?


I'm just sayin.'

(The split infinitive was free.)

I'd like to know where my money is for you waxing on for multiple posts regarding grammar, when you knew what they wanted to know.

If you're going to get paid for the corrections, I'm going to be a rich man for putting up with such meaningless corrections!

I come across some god awful racks. What I don't do is find the original installer and be a total ass and correct him on his wiring time and time again. They help me stay in business. Keep on wiring that way. Sometymes u gust gotta real axe Ernay.

What does this pointless rambling have to do with the amount of a fine for a parking ticket vs legal fees, value of time lost, and public resources wasted that were all required to fight this ticket? Was the fight really worth it? Or was she just an angry t*** that had to waste everyone else's time and money just to prove she was right?

Ok, according to the website for the village of West Jefferson OH, fines for parking violations are $10, unless otherwise posted. In the original arrival they showed a picture of the no parking sign and it said nothing about the penalty. So, her ticket was for $10. This ***** fought a $10 ticket, wasted the court's time, and was awarded $1500 in damages and costs to be paid by the town. I hate this woman. She should have done what any person with common sense would have done, looked at the no parking sign and said, "clearly they forgot a comma"