When people at parties ask me what I do I think I am just going to start saying that I’m an “emailer.”
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This was the most hilarious thing I have read all week.
And I am rather certain I shall be adopting the same response. I’ll cite you, I promise.
That’s good work if you can get it. I keep trolling Craigslist and Media Bistro, but all I can find are commenting gigs. Go figure.
I’m stealing that job title from you.
I’m not just an emailer. I’m like … the Norman E Mailer of emailers.
You make it sound like a purgatory. Getting paid for a blog isn’t such a bad gig. With the way the economy is hanging on by the hinges you should consider yourself lucky to not be working as a barrista at Starbucks or a cashier at the Virgin megastore in Union Square. If you like being a piece of meat I heard stripping is always a good source of extra income.
If your blog ever tanks there’s always baby sitting to consider.
hahahaha getting paid for a blog. ha ha!
How much does this blog cost you? (oops, maybe that was too intrusive a question) I mean, don’t people in general have to pay for server space etc?
Let’s be Sarah Palin’s official White House babysitters, and then we can tank the administration from inside, like in the underrated comedy classic Dick.
You could always get married. Financial security AND happiness, right? Right??
The real sad truth is your terrible grasp of grammar and sentence construction. Why don’t you use a comma?
>>When people at parties ask me what I do [comma] I think I am just going to start saying that I’m an “emailer.”
@Rebecca A., I think about $10/year, and let me tell you, it is worth every penny.
hahahaha All 1000 of ‘em.
Never underestimate the power of an e-mailer… *wink*
@ Tim: I think Emily left out that comma because it would have been *annoying*–and more incorrect than correct. The purpose of punctuation is to clear up ambiguities–and in this case the slight ambiguity of the construction “what I do at parties” (i.e., she’s being asked this question at parties, but you could also read it as her being asked what function she has at these parties [chef? caterer? hostess?]) is actually deepened by a comma. So, yeah, no comma. Have a nice day.
re: Keith.
Whatever. You’ve clarified nothing with your mysterious logic and insufficient presentation of the rules of grammar. The purpose of Emily’s sentence wasn’t as artful as you suggest. The sentence is a run on, plain and simple.
The attempt to correct the author’s grammar isn’t as annoying as the fact the the author/owner of this blog is, demonstratively, a poor writer. (And what is most annoying is that dear Keith would resort to crack logic, e.g. “ambiguities”, to defend the said incompetence.)
Thanks for clearing that up for us Keith. Now we know that Emily is an events coordinator.
@Tim, Keith: The function of the comma is not only to clear up ambiguities and separate clauses, but to formalize speech as well. The comma represents a brief pause in the sentence [comma] so that the eye can visually parse word groups, lists, ideas — any components of the sentence that should not run together.
But a blog post is the very definition of informal, colloquial style. It’s Emily talking to herself (and letting us in on those thoughts). That intimate voice would be diminished by the inclusion (at least in this instance) of a comma.
By the way, didn’t the economy just collapse or something?
Just askin’.
Yay one-liners.
Boo linguistic prescriptivism.
I stopped working four years ago, (comma) and when people ask me what I do with all my free time and I tell them that I live on the Internet,(comma) most often they look at me as if I were chewing on a mouthful of cockroaches.
I do do other things (is this good grammar?), but it is more fun to say I AM AN EMAILER AND I AM DAMN PROUD OF IT! (thanks for that one)
Tim, why don’t you go somehwhere you can be alone with your excellent grammar? Somewhere more worthy of you? We’ll try to get along without you here….
@Tim:
“demonstratively”?
You must be referring to another blog, because Emily is demonstrably an excellent writer.
And have a really nice day.
, <——I’ve lapsed into a comma
HJG- Thanks for that interesting definition of the blog. I just hope that Emily has a good copy editor for that alleged book.
Arthur: “I do, do other things.”
Cheers.
Tip for Arthur to avoid tautology in his writing: “I do (comma) however (comma) happen to do other things as well…”
Is this some kind of weird courting ritual? The Asperger’s English major equivalent of pushing little girls off swings in the playground?
Are there female bloggers out there whose self esteem is so low, they think, “Wow, the way he corrected my punctuation — so forceful, so strong. I wonder if he’s single?”
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