Excuse Note

[akisora.livejournal.com]

I happened to catch this located on LKH's main page. I'm sure she thinks it's cute and all. I want to see what happens if/when she gets held accountable by people and/or employers.

Comments

[drho.livejournal.com]

I don't think she'd be held accountable. Anyone silly enough to use it deserves the brunt of the reaction.

[shanrina.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

[akisora.livejournal.com]

Granted, with that last part I was being sarcastic. Sorry if that didn't come across clearly.

[windiain.livejournal.com]

Personally, I'm insulted she thinks I'd need the Wednesday off as well to read her drivel. It doesn't take that long.

Unless she thinks I need the extra day to recover and talk myself down from gouging my eyes out?

[akisora.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that - but I did thing it was bad - as you said, in her hands, it's crap.

[quizzicalsphinx.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering what happens when she gets held accountable by the freakin' English teachers of the world.

It's 'your', Laurell! Not 'you're'!

[akisora.livejournal.com]

Let's round them up, have them grade some of her stuff, and once they're outraged enough, turn them loose. If for nothing else, it might be amusing.

[quizzicalsphinx.livejournal.com]

Or turn them "lose", in Laurell's language.

[akisora.livejournal.com]

Exactly. But let's throw in some grammar nazi's for good measure

[ketzl.livejournal.com]

*cringe*

[judaistic.livejournal.com]

Is that supposed to be cute? That's one way to get my ass fired from work.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Ego: it's poisonous.

As it stands I will be going to the midnight showing of "Indiana Jones" this Wednesday. But I'm telling my boss that I'm doing that and I have no plans to be late for work that day, either!

[ladyniko.livejournal.com]

Okay, repost, since I screwed up my HTML tags. :-p

From a friend of mine on IRC: "I would be charitable, saying that it's a common mistake (the you're/your), easy to type and overlook if you're not careful, but she writes bad prose, so we can go ahead a roast her anyway. ;)"

My answer: "bad prose IS being charitable" :-p

She works in a library & says that unfortunately, bad prose is becoming almost a requirement for being a best seller. (Ee gas, what have we done to our education system?)