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What are some events that would be featured at the Grammar Olympics?

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Posted - August 25, 2016

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  • 3907

    Hello Randy:

    Apostrophy hurling, or however the hell you spell it.

    excon

      August 25, 2016 6:14 AM MDT
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  • 2

    To/Too/Two and There/Their/They're

      August 25, 2016 6:19 AM MDT
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  • Uneven tildes

      August 25, 2016 6:20 AM MDT
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  • 52903
    Lol!
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      August 25, 2016 6:30 AM MDT
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  • 52903
    :)
      August 25, 2016 6:30 AM MDT
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  • 52903
    :)
      August 25, 2016 6:30 AM MDT
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  • 2465

    The 100 yard -

      August 25, 2016 7:02 AM MDT
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  • 2465
    Gym***
      August 25, 2016 7:05 AM MDT
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  • Punching grammar fascists.

      August 25, 2016 7:09 AM MDT
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  • 9778

      August 25, 2016 7:33 AM MDT
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  • 9778

    Synchronized sentence diagramming. Freestyle punctuation. Semicolon slalom.

      August 25, 2016 7:37 AM MDT
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  • 52903

    (We'll be sure to sign you up for that Triathlon.)

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      August 25, 2016 8:31 AM MDT
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  • 52903

    LOL!  I love it!

    :)

      August 25, 2016 8:31 AM MDT
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  • Long Distance Run Ons

      August 25, 2016 8:34 AM MDT
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  • 52903

    LOL!

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      August 25, 2016 8:35 AM MDT
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  • 46117

    Diagramming very complex sentences.

    In pedagogy and theoretical syntax, a sentence diagram or parse tree is a pictorial representation of the grammatical structure of a sentence. The term "sentence diagram" is used more in pedagogy, where sentences are diagrammed. The term "parse tree" is used in linguistics (especially computational linguistics), where sentences are parsed. The purpose of sentence diagrams and parse trees is to have a model of the structure of sentences. The model is informative about the relations between words and the nature of syntactic structure and is thus used as a tool to help predict which sentences are and are not possible.

      August 25, 2016 8:46 AM MDT
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  • 52903

    You cut and pasted that entire passage.

    Disqualified!

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      August 25, 2016 8:49 AM MDT
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  • 52903

    Gym-asterisks, no?

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      August 25, 2016 8:50 AM MDT
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  • She uses PEDs (Performance Enhancing Documents.)

      August 25, 2016 12:46 PM MDT
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  • 5455

    It has to have the Tilde Toss!

    Wow!  I just threw it ~20m!

    We don't measure the tilde toss exactly.  We just guess how far it was tossed and round it to the nearest ten, but ~20m is still pretty good.

      August 25, 2016 3:10 PM MDT
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  • 2465
    Yes, gym***=gymnastics ;)
      August 25, 2016 4:15 PM MDT
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  • 52903
    Hillary taught her everything she knows.

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      August 26, 2016 6:14 AM MDT
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  • 52903
    :)
      August 26, 2016 6:14 AM MDT
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  • 52903
    LOL, perfect!

    :)
      August 26, 2016 6:15 AM MDT
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