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I Am Whatever You Say I Am
You are a GRAMMAR GOD!
If your mission in life is not already to
preserve the English tongue, it should be.
Congratulations and thank you!
How grammatically sound are you?
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This is so not true, but I'll take it. Now where's my crown and fiery halo? They were here just a minute ago and I think they might come in handy when I have to go to school and try to convince my professors not to flunk me. ;-) [link via a mi parecer]
UPDATE: It looks like Windoze users should not take this quiz —it might be loading crapware onto your computer! See the comments for more info.
Posted April 14, 2004 06:31 AM | life generally
Uh, yeah, me too! But did you notice that #7 is "faced" instead of the proper "face"?
Posted by: Famous P. at April 14, 2004 09:37 AM
Me three. Too bad our students never really recognize(d) that. :)
And I had issues with the test, too. Is that the ultimate sign of the Grammar God? Critiquing the test's grammar?
Posted by: raquel at April 15, 2004 10:38 AM
In addition to questionable grammar in the test itself, it contains some browser hijacker software if you're a Windows user, are using some versions of IE, and apparently do not get to grammar god status.
I don't use Win, but a friend of mine sent the quiz link and reported virus warnings that he'd seen to me.
A little digging found that my friend wasn't the only one who saw this:
http://www.parkwayreststop.com/archives/000624.html
My friend reported that it took 3 tries for him to get all of the pieces off his machine. It appears to be some sort of spyware called 'TV Media', which is a variant of jeired:
http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/library/jeired/index.phtml
Posted by: transmogriflaw at April 15, 2004 01:27 PM
One more thing: from what I can tell, it seems to be installed via a Visual Basic script somewhere on the quiz page, so I think pop-up blocking might not catch it. Good virus software should catch it in action, I think. I am by no means a Win/VB expert so this is just a guess.
Once again I rejoice in my Mac.
Posted by: transmogriflaw at April 15, 2004 01:32 PM
Thanks T for the warnings about the virus software. Aren't Macs great? I know it's only a matter of time before a huge icky virus really hits Macs hard, but until then, it sure is great to use a mac!
Famous P and Raquel: You guys aren't Grammar Gods, you're Grammar God Geeks! And that's only one more reason to love you!
Posted by: ambimb at April 15, 2004 06:28 PM
