We slept in this morning and got to eat breakfast looking out our hotel window at the Veteren's Day parade for the city we're in.
Misspellings: 1.
It was a nice parade, full of uniforms, flags, waving crowds, classic cars, some amazing motorcycles, and heroes.
Strange. I would have expected the crowds to be WATCHING the parade, not IN the parade.
Sloppy sentence construction: 1.
You think hero is too old-fashioned a word, or too simple for such complicated times? I don't.
"Hero" should be in quotation marks. And considering that there's a TV show called Heroes in "such complicated times," not to mention the descriptions of the men and women who tried to save others during 9/11, "hero" might not be "too old-fashioned" a word.
Faulty punctuation: 1. Logical fallacies (in this case, the straw man fallacy (http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/straw.htm)): 1.
There were men in the cars that had gotten their medals in older wars, when people didn't debate why we were doing what we were doing.
I believe that "earlier wars," would be correct, rather than "older wars." "Earlier" indicates that the wars occurred at a prior time. "Older" indicates that the wars have been going on since before the current war, and are getting on in years.
Also, people have debated the morality of every war, including the American Revolution and World War II. It's the nature of humans to argue.
Misused word: 1. Logical fallacy (begging the question (http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/begging.htm)): 2.
Frankly, whatever I believe polticially, if someone is willing to strap on a uniform, and weapons to defend my constitution then hero covers it.
"Politically" is misspelled. You can strap on a gun, but not a uniform. The comma after "uniform" is misplaced. "Constitution" should be capitalized. "Hero" should be in quotation marks.
I hear that it doesn't feel very heroioc over there.
"Heroic." Also, "over there"--Iraq--probably is not feeling heroic. The soldiers might feel heroic, but I doubt if the location would.
Misspellings: 3. Sloppy sentence construction: 2.
It feels scared, and dangerous, and so many things.
The soldiers might be scared, and they might perceive the location as dangerous. But the same word--"it"--should not be used to represent the common noun "soldiers" and the proper noun "Iraq."
Misused word: 3. Sloppy sentence construction: 3.
But hug a Vet today, and remember that when push comes to shove they are who and what we have standing between us and the other guys.
"Vet" should not be capitalized.
Capitalization errors: 2.
I feel the same way about the police, too, but today was for the Vets.
Capitalization errors: 3.
Do we have a police day? Or a fireman day? Should we have?
Lack of research: 1.
These are all the people who start running towards the trouble, while the rest of us run the other way.
They're also trained to deal with other soldiers, criminals and fires. I am not, and neither are you, Ms. Hamiliton. A civilian may not respond in the same way as a trained soldier, cop or firefighter, but that does not imply cowardice.
Logical fallacy (Fallacy of limited depth (http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/lidepth.htm)): 3.
That counts for something in my book, both fictionally, and in real life.
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Getting my grammar geek on-- Part 1.
Date: 2007-11-12 06:04 am (UTC)Misspellings: 1.
It was a nice parade, full of uniforms, flags, waving crowds, classic cars, some amazing motorcycles, and heroes.
Strange. I would have expected the crowds to be WATCHING the parade, not IN the parade.
Sloppy sentence construction: 1.
You think hero is too old-fashioned a word, or too simple for such complicated times? I don't.
"Hero" should be in quotation marks. And considering that there's a TV show called Heroes in "such complicated times," not to mention the descriptions of the men and women who tried to save others during 9/11, "hero" might not be "too old-fashioned" a word.
Faulty punctuation: 1.
Logical fallacies (in this case, the straw man fallacy (http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/straw.htm)): 1.
There were men in the cars that had gotten their medals in older wars, when people didn't debate why we were doing what we were doing.
I believe that "earlier wars," would be correct, rather than "older wars." "Earlier" indicates that the wars occurred at a prior time. "Older" indicates that the wars have been going on since before the current war, and are getting on in years.
Also, people have debated the morality of every war, including the American Revolution and World War II. It's the nature of humans to argue.
Misused word: 1.
Logical fallacy (begging the question (http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/begging.htm)): 2.
Frankly, whatever I believe polticially, if someone is willing to strap on a uniform, and weapons to defend my constitution then hero covers it.
"Politically" is misspelled. You can strap on a gun, but not a uniform. The comma after "uniform" is misplaced. "Constitution" should be capitalized. "Hero" should be in quotation marks.
Misspellings: 2.
Misused words: 2.
Faulty punctuation: 3.
Capitalization errors: 1.
I hear that it doesn't feel very heroioc over there.
"Heroic." Also, "over there"--Iraq--probably is not feeling heroic. The soldiers might feel heroic, but I doubt if the location would.
Misspellings: 3.
Sloppy sentence construction: 2.
It feels scared, and dangerous, and so many things.
The soldiers might be scared, and they might perceive the location as dangerous. But the same word--"it"--should not be used to represent the common noun "soldiers" and the proper noun "Iraq."
Misused word: 3.
Sloppy sentence construction: 3.
But hug a Vet today, and remember that when push comes to shove they are who and what we have standing between us and the other guys.
"Vet" should not be capitalized.
Capitalization errors: 2.
I feel the same way about the police, too, but today was for the Vets.
Capitalization errors: 3.
Do we have a police day? Or a fireman day? Should we have?
Lack of research: 1.
These are all the people who start running towards the trouble, while the rest of us run the other way.
They're also trained to deal with other soldiers, criminals and fires. I am not, and neither are you, Ms. Hamiliton. A civilian may not respond in the same way as a trained soldier, cop or firefighter, but that does not imply cowardice.
Logical fallacy (Fallacy of limited depth (http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/lidepth.htm)): 3.
That counts for something in my book, both fictionally, and in real life.
There should not be a comma after "fictionally."
Faulty punctuation: 4.