Poor grammar is disappointing and decidedly distracting in formal audio reviews.


I find the majority of formal audio reviews across numerous publications to be easy reads.  However, I can barely put together a coherent thought when reading anything by Jason Kennedy, editor of the-ear.net.  It is as if he does not understand the limitation of use of a comma.  Do the English really have that much of a different implementation of the english language versus Americans?  Does anybody else struggle to read certain editors' work?
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I actually wrote my Linguistics Masters Thesis on the subject of English Grammar. And lemme' say (comma, comma down, doo-bee-doo-down-down), that I just love the creative ways writers deal with commas.  Do they want to slow us down so that every fragment of their sentence is imbued with an air of crucial importance? Is the writer just plain punctilious & stuffy? Do they completely eliminate commas to lend teenage enthusiasm & breathlessness? Let grammatical freedom ring.
It's always fun to have fun with homonyms and "proper spellings." As far as I'm concerned, Spell Check is the bane of the erudite. I can almost hear snickers coming from my spell check software. "Let's duh, duh, dumb it down!"
I worked in the movie business for many years and I gotta say I've never come across a better collection of writers. It didn't matter whether the piece of writing was a novel, a screenplay or just an email to remind us of an upcoming holiday.
To this I proclaim to all propinquitous purveyors of propriety. I intend to be a dotard ’till my dotage!
Just like glory (and yes, I'll dutifully spell his screen name without a cap), I relentlessly edit, re-edit and polish my chat room posts before sending them on their way. Ninety-nine percent of the time, the way I post 'em is the way I want 'em.