Badonkadonk

While perusing one of my favorite websites, Merrian-Webster's Open Dictionary (yes, I have a subscription to the unabridged version. I told you I was a geek) I noticed that they recently updated the dictionary with over 100 words. So, yes all you fun-loving grammar geeks out there will be pleased to know that unibrow, drama queen, and ollie (as in the skateboard move) are now officially part of the English language and no longer "just" slang.

M-W.com often reviews submissions sent in by users when making their decisions as to which words are actually "bonafide" words and no longer "just" slang. What really made me giggle was the recently uploaded user definitions of one of Ingrid's favorite words.


badonkadonk
(noun) : a girls big butt
girl you got a badonkadonk —Maurice, Me, 10/9/06
Submitted by: moe from Illinois on Oct. 09, 2006 21:19

(noun) : a supreme posterior.
he may not be very career oriented, however his badonkadonk is like no other. —"pop culture"
Submitted by: Anonymous on Feb. 14, 2006 21:20

(noun) : A well shaped female buttocks.
Check out the badonkadonk on that chick.
Submitted by: Anonymous on Dec. 12, 2005 10:38

(noun) : Big ass
Her badonkadonk is phat
Submitted by: Anonymous on Oct. 11, 2005 15:35

So Ing, badonkadonk may well show up in the dictionary one of these days...

Is is Here, kitty kitty? Or Here kitty, kitty?

What a difference a comma makes!

Okay, I'm horrified. HORRIFIED. I'm doing the usual, glancing though the various Blogging Project Runway links to recaps, and what do I come upon? A blog called The Talent Show did a post on September 27th titled "...Next to Godliness" about a comic strip put out by Chick publications about the evils of doing spells on Halloween and the poor little girl whose cat is going to be sacrificed in said spell. What's the comic called? Here, kitty kitty. I shit you not. There's some random comic out there with the same title as my blog. Freaking right-wing Christian crazies! You stole my blog title! Hmmph.

It should read: You, Me, & Dupree...

I hate when people misuse punctuation. I especially hate it when it done for what promises to be a piss-poor movie and the title is on billboards all over the damned place. The movie title is missing a serial comma. You know, that nifty little punctuation mark that helps indicate a pause or separate items in lists, which is exactly what this title is. It's not "You (pause) Me & Dupree." It's "You (pause) Me (pause) & Dupree." As in all those mentioned are part of one group. If you leave the last comma out, it means that the first item is separate and distinct from the other two items in the list--which would be fine if the voice-overs in the commercials read it like that. But they don't! Why are they pausing if there is no comma?! Why?! Idiots.

How did they let this happen? I refuse to believe that someone didn't suggest/advise/notice that the comma after "me" was missing. Doesn't anyone have a grammar book out there in movieland? Didn't any of the people making this movie go to college? And didn't any of those people pay attention in their freshman English class? If they would have had me as a teacher they would have remembered. All crap like this does is help reinforce an already grammatically depreciated society's poor writing skills. Thank you Hollywood.

Em-dash Nazi

You know you are a grammar nerd when you are harmlessly perusing the new contestant bios on the Project Runway website and you come across a type-o that is so glaringly annoying (first paragraph, five lines down; check the HTML codes! It should be an actually em dash, not labeled "emdash" yeash!) that you take the time to e-mail the webmaster to let them know what a piss-poor job they did of copyediting the page, and then you check it the next day and it is STILL THERE!!! Not to mention that apparently they've never heard of serial commas and they use the annoyingly highbrow way of spelling theater; you design costumes for theater, major in theater; you work at the Majestic Theatre. One is not a proper noun, the other is not.

Here is the aformentioned webpage type-o:

Project Runway Bio for Jeffrey Sebelia

I'm sitting here sputtering because it annoys me so.