[Warning: Very Disjointed Blog Ahead]
It would make sense, normally, for the worlds of "grammar nerd" and "person who listens to music about a book series" to intersect...right? Well, yes. Except that being a grammar nerd in the wrock world can often lead to confusion, largely involving pronouns.
For example, if I want to refer to The Whomping Willows (or Tonks and the Aurors, or Justin Finch-Fletchley and the Sugar Quills...) within a sentence, would the verb need to be plural to agree with the subject, even though technically the band name is a plural noun referring to a singular person? And if I used, to continue the example, The Whomping Willows, and wanted to use that as an antecedant to a pronoun that came later, would that pronoun be "he" or "they"? The amount of time I've spent wondering about this is truly sad...
I'm having trouble thinking of anything else interesting to say at the moment, sadly... I think that all the cashier work I'm doing is sapping my soul. Although I can name a huge number of grocery codes. What would be really interesting is if I could develop some sort of code for cashiers, where the 4 digit code referred to the first letter of the produce item it referred to.
For example...
4225 (Avacado) would be A
4011 (Banana) would be B
4050 (Cantelope) would be C
So, steppint off one nerd train and onto another for a moment, has anyone heard about the pirates? I'm not talking Jack Sparrow here; a US ship has actually been taken, and a hostage taken, by Somalian pirates. This would be funny, if someone's life didn't hang in the balance..
Quote of the day: There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
Winston Churchill
Peace. Love. Happiness
~Cody
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