So here's the thing: I don't care what degrees that you have, if you have been in school for a minimum of 20 years, you should know that there is no comma in the following sentence: "She is an excellent presenter, who is engaging and warm and really connects well with students." This is an unneccesary comma. Gah! And how about this gem: "Writing a letter of recommendation from an excellent teacher like Dr. X; who is highly regarded and respected is one of the few things in life that makes you realize how certain teachers have a lasting impact on your career development." Obviously, this one's English teacher was not one of those that made an impact.
Perhaps I'm anal retentive to a fault, but what happened to respect for language? I'm sure it's not just English that is being beaten in a dank warehouse and left to die there. Are we so entrenched in a text-message/e-mail/chat-room anything goes society that we have forgotten the basic tenets of our language? Yes, English is a fucking difficult language, but it's not like basic grammar rules are the difficult aspects of the language.
Ok. I should get back to work. Really. (That's a fragment, you know, and so is this.)
That, peevish readers, is all.
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The joke's on the scientists: I'm good at the English language, but I sit in laboratories and drop cookie crumbs into beakers, I never measure anything at all, I abhor the scientific method the way nature abhors a vacuum (I make my theories first and then formulate hypotheses), I use non-scientific calculators to do my addition (calculator doesn't even do logarithms), I tell children that if you combine sodium into a pool it will harmlessly turn purple, and I give up whenever I don't know the answer and say, "It is God's way and you are a sinner to question it!" Also, 2+2=1, lab coats are out of fashion, stethoscopes are no better than a plastic cup, and psychiatry is a stupid practice. Take that, scientists!
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