Because today, I broke my website. And you know what did me in? Pride.
Last week I took a quiz to determine just exactly where I fell among all of the deadly sins, and here were my results:
| Greed: | High | |
| Gluttony: | High | |
| Wrath: | Medium | |
| Sloth: | Medium | |
| Envy: | Medium | |
| Lust: | Very Low | |
| Pride: | Very High |
Take the Seven Deadly Sins Quiz
This will of course come as no surprise to anyone who is married to me, is related to me, went to school with me, is friends with me, was friends with me, has ever worked with me, or has ever passed by me on the street.
And if there is anything about which I am prideful, it is the correct use of grammar, and my own personal correct-grammar-using-abilities. In other words, I am a Grammar Snob.
Just two weeks ago on vacation (VACATION!) I declared to my husband that I could not bring myself to eat at the Western Sizzlin’ because its name is composed entirely of adjectives and contains no nouns. (Fortunately for him, he packed lots of tequila.)
So today I asked him to install a new plug in on my blog that would change the way that the comments appear on each post. He did, and everything was fine until I saw that for some reason, it generated the following sentences: “[x] and [y] have already leave comments. Why don’ you?”
Well, there’s not enough tequila in the world to make that acceptable to a grammar snob, so I took it upon myself to just go in and “correct” the grammar written in the HTML code. Because everyone knows that having a Master’s Degree in Spanish and being able to write beautiful, densely packed, grammatically correct paragraphs in two languages means that you are also an expert in computer code.
Not.
Fortunately my husband, the person who actually knows how to write computer code and who has pretty much built this entire website for me, was able to fix it, with only a minimum of eye-rolling, whistling, and use of the phrase “screwed the pooch.”
And because he loves me very very much, and because there is some tequila left over from vacation, he also fixed the grammar for me too.
well…dont that just screw the pooch! I feel your pain. My job title is a bunch of adjectives with no object. It makes me insane. Im stealing this quiz!
This is a great quiz! I also love the ones at blogthings.com and quizfarm.com.
Oh yeah, Grammar Snobs rule. If only there were many many more out there! I’m off to try the quizz, although I probably should be somewhat hesitant. Thanks for the tip.
No problem! 🙂
Took the quiz and ended up finding out that Wrath did me in. In my defense, it was at Medium! It wasn’t even that bad! I really am not an angry cat! I swear!
I know, sometimes the truth is hard to hear 🙂
I’m right there with you…not the grammar, I have a bad habit of making up my own rules whenever I see fit 😉
I just installed the same plug-in and spent forever just trying to make it work!!!
I’ll have to take the quiz tonight!
I make up my own rules about commas, I think. Which is funny, since I’m suck a stickler about following the “correct” rules for everything else 🙂