What’s in a name? That which we call a bike path, by any other name would…

[Orestes Munn]

@chris_s 102210 wrote:

I nominate this thread for “Great Moments in Pedantry”.

Hey, you all told me you were 22!

[rcannon100]

Fake Bike Lane Parking Ticket. Share it ~ Print it ~ Slap it.

[Sunyata]

@rcannon100 102564 wrote:

Fake Bike Lane Parking Ticket. Share it ~ Print it ~ Slap it.

ICK… If people are going to make things like this, the least they could do is make it grammatically correct. :confused:

[bobco85]

@Sunyata 102649 wrote:

ICK… If people are going to make things like this, the least they could do is make it grammatically correct. :confused:

What was grammatically incorrect in the ticket? Everything looked fine to me.

[dkel]

@bobco85 102651 wrote:

What was grammatically incorrect in the ticket? Everything looked fine to me.

It’s unacceptable to brazenly split infinitives, and commas between clauses are important. Also, “when you park in or block a bicycle lane….” In addition, “Bike” and “Lane” don’t deserve capitalization at the end of a sentence, unless they deserve capitalization at the beginning of a sentence, too.

[Orestes Munn]

@dkel 102653 wrote:

It’s unacceptable to brazenly split infinitives, and commas between clauses are important. Also, “when you park in or block a bicycle lane….” In addition, “Bike” and “Lane” don’t deserve capitalization at the end of a sentence, unless they deserve capitalization at the beginning of a sentence, too.

All that and I would have changed “significantly increase” to “increase significantly.” However, the text looks like a bunch of weenie pleading and assumes the recipient gives a minuscule crap about the convenience and safety of cyclists. What it really needs is a tenacious adhesive.

[dkel]

@Orestes Munn 102657 wrote:

All that and I would have changed “significantly increase” to “increase significantly.”

I did appreciate the appearance of an Oxford comma in the penultimate sentence, though.

[americancyclo]

@rcannon100 102564 wrote:

Fake Bike Lane Parking Ticket. Share it ~ Print it ~ Slap it.

How’s about we get the local police officers to issue real tickets instead?

[PotomacCyclist]

@dkel 102653 wrote:

It’s unacceptable to brazenly split infinitives, and commas between clauses are important. Also, “when you park in or block a bicycle lane….” In addition, “Bike” and “Lane” don’t deserve capitalization at the end of a sentence, unless they deserve capitalization at the beginning of a sentence, too.

J. Tiberius Kirk says it’s OK to split infinitives:

[Orestes Munn]

It is permissible to split infinitives on alternate Thursdays, but only when not to would be particularly awkward or stilted, e.g., up with which I will not put.

[bobco85]

@dkel 102653 wrote:

It’s unacceptable to brazenly split infinitives, and commas between clauses are important. Also, “when you park in or block a bicycle lane….” In addition, “Bike” and “Lane” don’t deserve capitalization at the end of a sentence, unless they deserve capitalization at the beginning of a sentence, too.

Ah, I didn’t even notice those!

My time reading articles, blogs, comments, etc. online has decreased my grammar-detecting abilities (I noticed recently that I tend to phonetically read Internet text due to all the spelling errors I encounter). I’m usually just impressed enough if someone can use the proper version of homophones like “they’re, there, and their” and “two, to, and too” (I’ve actually given up on people using the correct version of “its” versus “it’s”). Right now, the only thing that really annoys me is when people use “should/could/would of” instead of the correct “should/could/would have.”

[cyclingfool]

@dkel 102658 wrote:

I did appreciate the appearance of an Oxford comma in the penultimate sentence, though.

Vive le Oxford comma!

[Orestes Munn]

@bobco85 102673 wrote:

Ah, I didn’t even notice those!

My time reading articles, blogs, comments, etc. online has decreased my grammar-detecting abilities (I noticed recently that I tend to phonetically read Internet text due to all the spelling errors I encounter). I’m usually just impressed enough if someone can use the proper version of homophones like “they’re, there, and their” and “two, to, and too” (I’ve actually given up on people using the correct version of “its” versus “it’s”). Right now, the only thing that really annoys me is when people use “should/could/would of” instead of the correct “should/could/would have.”

It really is bad out there. The confusion over the use of “which,” “that,” and “who(m)” is complete, even among professional writers, with “that” replacing the other two. Misuse of “leverage,” “beg the question,” “in waiting,” and “hedge,” are also pervasive in the newspapers and embitter my coffee every morning.

[chris_s]

@dkel 102653 wrote:

It’s unacceptable to brazenly split infinitives,

No it isn’t.

[cyclingfool]

@dkel 102658 wrote:

I did appreciate the appearance of an Oxford comma in the penultimate sentence, though.

Gotta love that comma. It may be referred to by any of a number of names: Oxford comma, serial comma, and Harvard comma.

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