Snacks of Doom; ; Grammar

[Trina]

Amanda, replying to Dai's fear of Salmonella
> 
> Spoilsport. I have friends who shudder for the very same reason, 
when I let my kids lick the beaters after I make a cake or cookies. I 
do agree there's a slight danger, but I also think Life's Too Short 
Not To Lick Beaters Or Eat Cookie Dough.


I agree, and besides these eggs have been refrigerated prior to 
getting mixed in with the other ingredients.  It's not as if the bowl 
of cookie dough has been sitting out for hours in the hot summer sun 
acting as a breeding ground for bored bacteria.  At the most, the 
dough is sitting out for 30 minutes. 


On the Grammar pet peeves thread:

I'm a speech therapist, for those who don't know, and have my BA in 
Rhetoric (creative writing, essentially), so the improper use of 
language just irritates me.  

Anyway, one of the tests that I've given to older children (9-12 yo) 
has a section in which I read a sentence to the student and they have 
to tell me if it's right or wrong.  Examples:  "We was not at school 
yesterday."  "Anthony always forget where he lives."  There are foils 
of correct sentences. ("Hermione ran out of the Divination 
classroom."  Okay, so I made that one up, but you get the idea.  It 
is grammatically correct.)  When I was in rural NC I was at an 
elementary school for K-6, so I used it a lot. This was the section 
that I knew we'd ceiling on very quickly (3/5 wrong and we're done).  
The kids always bombed out on this section. It was a given.  I wrote 
more grammar goals on IEPs than I ever imagined I would.  

What always makes my ears bleed is using the objective case pronouns 
in a subjective manner.  "Her and me went to the store." <shudders>  
I work on that with all my kids, even if they don't have any language 
goals per se.  It drives me starkers.

Trina, who once in a very tired state misspelled "canon" as "cannon" 
and received an off-list e-mail pointing it out.  Even those with 
spelling bee trophies sometimes make mistakes.