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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 46504" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Those Dove commercials - a Sydney magazine was trying to set up some 'real' photos of a group of women and I volunteered - it was to be nude, but due to internet problems I didn't get a chance to confirm my times with them before the deadline and I lost my place. I'm sort of relieved...</p><p></p><p>One of my pet peeves is bad grammar, from people who should know better (like reporters and Education Ministers). A writer I encountered once, was holding forth on his current opus. It was, he told us, to be a treatise in psychology with considerable subtlety, definitely only for the intellectual elite. When I read it I did wonder at this claim - for something so allegedly academic, he shouldn't have written "I should OF done something...". His work was full of these gross clangers and schoolboy howlers. It was embarrassing to sit there and hear him pronounce how wonderful his work was, how many awards he was going to receive in the halls of academia. When I gently tried to suggest that perhaps he should consider editing his own work, he was scathing - clearly I didn't have the intellectual capacity to appreciate his work. He then read a chapter to us - it was about his first sexual experience. He was alone at the time. And as he read, I was regretting bringing easy child 2/difficult child 2 to this writing workshop. She was 13 at the time and shouldn't have had to sit through this rubbish.</p><p></p><p>OK, people here often spell badly, split infinitives and simply get it wrong - but on this site, that's not what we're here for. So here, it's not a problem. But coming from someone who was claiming to be the next James Joyce, it was a bit much.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 46504, member: 1991"] Those Dove commercials - a Sydney magazine was trying to set up some 'real' photos of a group of women and I volunteered - it was to be nude, but due to internet problems I didn't get a chance to confirm my times with them before the deadline and I lost my place. I'm sort of relieved... One of my pet peeves is bad grammar, from people who should know better (like reporters and Education Ministers). A writer I encountered once, was holding forth on his current opus. It was, he told us, to be a treatise in psychology with considerable subtlety, definitely only for the intellectual elite. When I read it I did wonder at this claim - for something so allegedly academic, he shouldn't have written "I should OF done something...". His work was full of these gross clangers and schoolboy howlers. It was embarrassing to sit there and hear him pronounce how wonderful his work was, how many awards he was going to receive in the halls of academia. When I gently tried to suggest that perhaps he should consider editing his own work, he was scathing - clearly I didn't have the intellectual capacity to appreciate his work. He then read a chapter to us - it was about his first sexual experience. He was alone at the time. And as he read, I was regretting bringing easy child 2/difficult child 2 to this writing workshop. She was 13 at the time and shouldn't have had to sit through this rubbish. OK, people here often spell badly, split infinitives and simply get it wrong - but on this site, that's not what we're here for. So here, it's not a problem. But coming from someone who was claiming to be the next James Joyce, it was a bit much. Marg [/QUOTE]
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