Facebook Groups for Word-Lovers

You’re listening to A Way with Words. I’m Grant Barrett.

And I’m Martha Barnette.

One of the fun things about Facebook is finding affinity groups that match your own passions.

You can join groups of people who share your enthusiasm for a political cause or a sports team or getting Betty White to host Saturday Night Live.

Awesome.

Right, right. I’m in that group.

Well, you can also find groups of people who are passionate about words and grammar.

And the one that I joined most recently has the motto, Punctuation Saves Lives.

And it’s a group called Let’s Eat Grandma or Let’s Eat, Grandma.

Very good.

I’ve been a few of those myself.

How about this one?

Ambrose Bierce was the baddest ass lexicographer who ever lived.

So I think it’s fun, right?

How did I miss that?

Yeah.

And my favorite ones are like the call and response songs from the 60s and 70s.

You know, the old blues or the R&B style where one group makes a song and the second group releases a song that kind of answers back the first song?

Well, they do that in Facebook groups.

So you have, I judge you when you use poor grammar.

Right.

And then there’s the response group, I judge you when you call acceptable usage poor grammar.

And there’s, I judge you when you judge me for using poor grammar.

And one of my favorite groups on Facebook is people who always have to spell their names for other people.

Oh.

I mean, that’s the world, right?

Don’t we all have to do that?

Even John Smith has a problem.

Come to think of it, yeah, it could be J. Owen, right?

Yeah, sure.

I also like, what our grammar?

Well, drop us a line with the Facebook groups you think we should join, and we’d be happy to check them out.

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