Grammar Nazis what’s your score?
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 35 | August 16, 2018 1:27 AM |
Oh look, the Nazi troll is trying to find fun and interactive ways to use the word Nazi.
So stealth, OP.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | August 15, 2018 4:00 AM |
I tried to correct this punctuation -
left wing: As much
there is no capital after the colon and the colon isn't really the best choice anyway. But NYT refused that.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | August 15, 2018 4:00 AM |
Also the lack of parallel structure with "Democrats" paired to "The Republican Party." NYT doesn't recognize
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | August 15, 2018 4:02 AM |
Yawn. The grammatical rules of the English language are merely suggestions.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | August 15, 2018 4:11 AM |
Took me 15 tries to complete the test, which is better than 93%. Median score is 28.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 15, 2018 4:18 AM |
I got the first three right then got bored and quit.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | August 15, 2018 4:22 AM |
At least you didn't get bot gored.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | August 15, 2018 4:24 AM |
I got the median score, 28. NYT loves run-on sentences, it seems. I prefer them short and to the point.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | August 15, 2018 4:39 AM |
Note that R7 doesn't say how MANY tries it took to get those three "right."
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | August 15, 2018 4:40 AM |
You took 23 tries to complete the quiz.
Over all, you did better than 72 percent of Times readers. The median score on this quiz is 28.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | August 15, 2018 4:48 AM |
R11, The first three weren't especially hard, though to be fair my answer for #1 was a bit of a guess. I thought the choice of "hate" was a little odd, so that's what I picked. I thought it could easily have been wrong. What was #3, an extra comma? That one was pretty obvious. I'm not claiming would have done great on the rest of it, but like I said .... bored.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | August 15, 2018 5:43 AM |
R9, I haven't had a good solid goring in a while.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | August 15, 2018 5:45 AM |
R14, my sympathies. Maybe you'll get lucky this weekend.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | August 15, 2018 7:25 AM |
22 for me, but that’s because I couldn’t get the clicking to work correctly — very annoying.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | August 15, 2018 7:44 AM |
I’m up to 19 tries. But if I don’t get it on the next try, I’m going to move on to number two.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | August 15, 2018 10:53 AM |
r17 I didn't get it to work consistently, either. Maybe I'll try it again in Chrome instead of Firefox. That's the source of a lot of problems for me. It took me 23 tries to do better than 72 percent, but most answers I got "you did better than 99 percent..." Also, I think there was an "Oh, Dear" or two.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | August 15, 2018 11:04 AM |
Avital R,onnell:; Is part of the the Jewz for Peace in this days NYT ...
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | August 15, 2018 11:08 AM |
It took you 20 responses in to start your hate campaign, R20?
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | August 15, 2018 11:12 AM |
Remember, R21, "block" is your friend!
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | August 15, 2018 11:14 AM |
Remember R22, not coming here is your best option.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | August 15, 2018 11:18 AM |
Muriel, next time you do a software revision, can you make it so we don't see the numbers in the right column of those we have blocked. I keep clicking on the number because, well, because it's there, and too often, clicking takes me to posts I didn't want to look at.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | August 15, 2018 11:21 AM |
Then don't come here R24. No one wants you here.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | August 15, 2018 11:25 AM |
That's an overwrought response, r25. Even as pointless bitchery.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | August 15, 2018 11:26 AM |
I'm glad you see it that way R26. Now take your hate campaign somewhere else.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | August 15, 2018 11:32 AM |
But I'm not the "hate campaign" person, r27. I'd like to block him, too.
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | August 15, 2018 11:35 AM |
Forcall intensive purpose’s, these test’s are for moron’s.
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | August 15, 2018 12:01 PM |
I am a former copy editor. If I were still in the business I would circle and write AWKWARD in the margin or suggest a rewrite for most of these samples. They are embarrassingly bad writing.
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | August 15, 2018 1:24 PM |
18. But questions 10 and 11 are flawed in a way that renders the test useless.
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | August 15, 2018 3:19 PM |
R30, forestall defensive porpoises. These pests are former cons.
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | August 15, 2018 7:00 PM |
