Monday, October 01, 2012

Simon Pegg, nailed by the grammar police... again

I don't follow many celebrity Twitter feeds, but one feed I have been following is that of Simon Pegg, the delightfully energetic actor-comedian who played Scotty in 2009's "Star Trek" with much brio, gusto, verve, and élan. Mr. Pegg's tweets have kept me abreast of the post-production happenings of the upcoming "Star Trek" sequel, for which I'm very appreciative.

Alas, Mr. Pegg is also an error-prone writer, and every once in a while he gets nailed by his faithful followers for his grammatical, mechanical, and diction-related sins. This obviously irritates him to no end, even though the equally obvious solution would be for Mr. Pegg simply to write better. I don't see this happening anytime soon, though; Mr. Pegg prefers to rail against his readership, who are only trying to help. Below, we see his reaction to readerly attempts to correct his omission of a vocative comma:


Just use the goddamn comma, Mr. Pegg.


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4 comments:

  1. mattOctober 2, 2012 at 4:59:00 AM GMT+9

    The first day of doing what with school boys? Sometimes only a comma stands between you and a police investigation...

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  2. Kevin KimOctober 2, 2012 at 5:02:00 AM GMT+9

    Indeed.

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  3. Mark TuetingOctober 3, 2012 at 3:45:00 AM GMT+9

    Really? You identification of Simon Pegg is as Scotty and not as Shawn of the Dead!?

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  4. Kevin KimOctober 4, 2012 at 2:07:00 PM GMT+9

    Scotty's more recent in my memory.

    Congrats on winning that essay contest, by the way.

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