Um...huh? So I looked at my original email below, and instead of "Thank-you!" it said:
Oops! But still, what? Then I looked back at HER original email and saw this:
So she thought I was correcting her than/then use. But then MY email should have, at the VERY least, said "Than, you!" So not only did she think I was a big enough douche to correct her grammar when she was doing me a favour, but she thought I was doing it USING IMPROPER GRAMMAR.
So I emailed back:
And she said:
And also:
And finally:
And I said, well I know who I can share it with, who will TOTALLY get the awesomeness. And I didn't even point out this part to her:
Well, until now. Because I'm an asshole. And it's the icing on the fabulous story cake. And Zarah can take it.
11 comments:
When I read this, Alison, my head literally exploded. It takes alot of nerve to make fun of a freind on the Internet like that.
Ahahaha! I love this! I woke up this morning and it's minus 30 and I have to set up the book fair later and THIS totally made my day. So, thanks. Or than's
Steph - I was about to be all "I asked first! She said I could!" And then I was like, "oh....OH yeah, I see what you did there." (Bonus points for using 'literally' in one of Zarah's pet peeve manners).
I loved that. It was an unconscious grammatical rebuke typo.
Love what Steph said. So subtle and so evil.
I loved that. It was an unconscious grammatical rebuke typo.
Love what Steph said. So subtle and so evil.
For the record, I don't even think what I wrote there is English.
This is full of win. ALL THE WIN.
Ha!
(And that's all I'm going to write. Just in case.)
Nerd is my tribe. This may become one of my sacred texts. Thanks for having faith in me as a reader (and a socially-adept but still deeply afflicted word nerd).
I go crazy when I go back and see an email or twitter or update with "I'd rather THEN then that." WTH? I know I know the difference, and yet my fingers? Grammar amnesia.
Love this! Oh, I've been known to be a grammar witch every now and then. But I will say this...tone of voice is often misrepresented in emails/posts. That little nugget saves all of us grammar witches when we need saving!
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