to be mortified by DP's grammatical error in DD's reading diary?

[LisasCat]

It was the very first line of the first entry on the first page. DD has just started school, and got her reading diary yesterday. As DP reads her bedtime stories I asked him to write the first ever entry in this, and then saw that he had written story's when he meant stories. Yes I know I'm a bit of a tyrant when it comes to grammar, especially apostrophes, but this is now going to be the first thing her teacher sees, and will be visible for as long as she has this book.

So was I being a complete cow unreasonable to cross through it and write the correct word above, in what is obviously a different person's handwriting, and will therefore show the teacher that one of the parents is under the oppressive regime of the other, who is an evil pedant?

If he comes on here, will you all advise him "leave the bitch"?

Does it make any difference that I was cooking him a delicious dinner while he committed this awful crime wrote in the book?

[aldiwhore]

YABU to be mortified. I do find it funny that you corrected it, YANBU for that.

I hope you signed the correction, else the teacher will think its YOUR error that your DP has corrected.

[MurunBuchstansangur]

On the subject of discrete, Boots Maternity towels are 'discrete'. Maybe the other kind come on a roll?

[BupcakesandCunting]

"Bupcakes armed robbery would be fine...at least that would pay the bills. What does crap grammar ever achieve?"

Dunno. A significant increase in your wife's blood pressure?

[mamofK]

'Diarrhoea is going through the upper KS2 children at the moment.'

Fantastic!

In my sad secret life as a punctuation freak, I actually have a collection of photos on my phone of badly written signs and notices - I think they're hilarious, my husband thinks I'm insane. Having said that, his grammar and punctuation are pretty good thanks to my having "helpfully" proofread and edited all his college essays.

[WhoseGotMyEyebrows]

That's a really good idea lambethlil. As it's the first page, assuming it is staple bound (which they usually are), you could have removed the last page as well, otherwise it would have just fallen out.

[scuzy]

seriously ... have NO ONE here heard of tippex? problem solved!

[WhoseGotMyEyebrows]

LisasCat Seeing as you're a "bit of a tyrant when it comes to grammar, especially apostrophes", can you give me an idiots lesson? I'm never entirely sure when they come after the s and when before .

[scuzy]

*has

[LisasCat]

I couldn't tear out the page, as he'd already torn one when he wasn't happy with his artistic expression in his first attempt (he wanted to get the tone just right - 'involved but not overbearing' parent). If we keep going at this pace, DD will end up with a few sad looking sheets left stapled together.

[WhoseGotMyEyebrows]

Ah but scuzy, Tippex is messy and some pens won't dry when used on top of it, meaning they get smudged and then you have to use more tippex on top . . . it just goes on and on!

[tethersend]

Leave him

[WhoseGotMyEyebrows]

I would have turned the y into an i and the ' into an e

[TheVermiciousKnid]

LisasCat, shouldn't there be an apostrophe in your username?

[LisasCat]

Oh and no tippex in the house, and needed to make the correction before school run this morning.

Whosegotmyeyebrows they go after the s when it's the possession of many, i.e. the cats' litter box would imply you have 2 or more cats who use the same litter box, whereas cat's litter box would be just one cat (or the cat is called litter box!)

[mumsamilitant]

Give him the cane

[LisasCat]

vermicious can we put symbols in user names? If so, yes I should, and you have made me feel deeply ashamed. I will go and self-flagellate immediately, before changing my name (probably to singleparentof2duetobeingabitch).

Unless that name's already taken.

[WhoseGotMyEyebrows]

Ha ha ha Knid, my name isn't correct either! Really bugs me they don't let you use aposprophies in your name.

[WhoseGotMyEyebrows]

Thanks Lisa will try to remember that. I went to the crappest schools in the land. They didn't teach us was nouns/pronouns/verbs etc were either!

[TheVermiciousKnid]

before changing my name (probably to singleparentof2duetobeingabitch).

Probably taken already.

You could change your name to 'CatbelongingtoLisa'?

[WhoseGotMyEyebrows]

'AnallyRetentiveLisa'?

[nickelbabe]

you can't put apostrophes in usernames

[michelleseashell]

Yanbu and then some!

My husband doesn't use full stops.

he writes like this, in an endless stream of dialogue, going from one subject to another, with no thought at all for his poor wife, who looks like she married a complete moron, on facebook,

The only exception is a particularly wild change in subject, which he believes calls for an ellipsis to be jammed in. Then he finishes off with a flurry of lol's and happy and sad faces.

The worst thing is that when I try to gently explain how sentences work, he laughs and tells me IT DOESN'T MATTER.

It boils my piss.

[LisasCat]

Thinking about it, an apostrophe in my name would be helpful, after someone who didn't spot the upper case C mentally read my name as Lisa Scat, and of course, this being MN, she had a filthy mind and thought of scat play rather than the singing style.

(N.B. if you are at work, and are not sure, do not google scat play)

[LisasCat]

Any cries of "leave the bastard" should be reserved for michelleseashell. "Doesn't matter"????? "Doesn't effing matter"???????? See bupcake's earlier description of what happens when a civilisation fails in its grammar.

[TheVermiciousKnid]