The details: an article was written by a man named Murray Chass criticizing a group of baseball bloggers for a post the group wrote, which to his mind has inexusable English and math errors. The following article comments then make the point that Mr Chass is a jerk and that he makes mistakes himself.
The fun part: the whole thing soon evolves (devolves?) into more than 100 comments on English usage, spelling and pronunciation, many of which are fairly entertaining. My favorite is the distinction in pronunciation between the three words Mary, merry, and marry, which I don't think was satisfactorily resolved. So anyway, enjoy.
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While I, like you, take pleasure in correct grammar and in finding egregious spelling/grammatical mistakes in the world, I will have to also agre with WeeklyJournalist who commented, "God, there is NOTHING more grating or annoying than the ####### grammar police." It also becomes tough to continually point out errors from a holier than thou perspective as many will be only too delighted to find a mistake in your own work as chass found out here from the flamewar he started.
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