Thursday, March 29, 2007
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Damn Your Sparkling Wordplay!
It's 10:30pm and I'm still at work, where I've been for 14 1/2 hours now. Good times.
Mr. S and I were just arguing about a sentence in a letter. His talent for "wordsmithing" is unparalleled, at least in his own mind. I swear to you, he said a while ago, "I just read my first draft of this letter. God, I was marvelous." And seriously, he's about half a step above functional illiteracy, which makes it even more funny or sad or aggravating, depending on your point of view. Right now, 14 1/2 hours into this letter, it's a little more than aggravating.
Anyway, we were arguing over whether or not the verb in this sentence should be "is" or "was." He has a lot of trouble with these sticky grammar issues. As usual, we ended up arguing on the same side. He thought is should be "was," until at some point I convinced him, and then he yelled at me:
"It is, because it wasn't was."
God, he's marvelous.
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Brilliant!
"Right now, 14 1/2 hours into this letter, it's a little more than aggravating." With your boss, I'd say anything more then half an hour would be more then aggravating.