Sunday, December 20, 2009

My daughter the Grammar Nazi

Should have seen this one coming.

So while we're waiting for Daughter Number Two to arrive, I go on a bike ride. Get home, she just pulls into the driveway behind me. We go in the house and the Sainted Bride, who had been watching a recording of her afternoon shows while committing sundry acts of home improvement, says "You have to see the name of this website."

She scans back a bit on the DVD to a commercial for one of those lowlife lawyers scrotes that advertises on afternoon TV. This particular lawyer scrote's website is "WhoCanISue-dot-com".

DNT's first comment, before the expected rant against shysters: "First of all, it should be whom."

5 comments:

Heroditus Huxley said...

She's right, you know. Even if the form is disappearing, it is the correct form for that situation.

Then again, scrotal warts like that particular bottom feeder probably doesn't have more than the minimum education necessary to pass the bar exam, and last I heard, that didn't have anything to do with actual English (I refuse to believe that the language of the judicial system is English.

Maggie May said...

DNT is brilliant, of course. I am guessing this scrote's target clients will not catch this display of ineptidude.

Dave E. said...

Ineptidude?

Please tell me that's not a typo, because I love it. Not that I'm qualified to be part of the grammar police or anything.

wolfwalker said...

DNT was out of order. All such disputes have been suspended for the season.

Grammar got run over by a reindeer.

The Fifth String said...

*snort*