Grammar Girl

I recently read an article about Grammar Girl in the Ogden Standard so I decided to take a look at the website and see what it was all about. You can find the website at http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/default.aspx or just put in a google search for Grammar Girl. It's a fun site with not only help for your grammar but also short advice from other informed authorities: Money Girl, Legal Lad, Mighty Mommy, and Mr. Manners. You can listen to their advice through a pod cast or read it in text format. They also give you contact information to e-mail or call in and record a question. I listened for a bit to find out if you should capitalize "Internet" (yes). There was also a nice diagram on the use of the words "lay" and "lie" that might help me in the future. Grammar Girl, Mignon Fogarty, has also started a flicker.com group where people can post signs they've seen with bad spellings or grammar and those are rather funny.



On another note, I went in to look at Legal Lad to see what type of advice he was giving and was fascinated to read about the ownership of home run balls. He was discussing the catch of Barry Bond's 756 home run in 2001 when one person stopped the ball in his glove but dropped it and someone else picked it up. The question before the court was who owned the ball as it soared through the air into the waiting crowd. The court decided that once the ball is hit, it becomes abandoned property because the Ball League does not intend to get the ball back. The first person to take possession of intentionally abandoned property becomes the full owner. You'll have to go to the site how and how the decision came out - if the person who stopped the ball got it or if the person who picked it up after it dropped became the owner.



Susan