Monday, Apr 19, 2004, 11:58 AM
I Shall Wear My Grammar Godhood With Humility
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!
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[ed: I took out all the links in this post because apparently there are links on this site that dump adware on your machine and some of my readers have been bitten. My apologies. If you must go to the site, here's the link, but on your head be it: http://quizilla.com/users/BaalObsidian/quizzes/How%20grammatically%20sound%20are%20you?/]
27 comments
on this post
Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]:
Apparently, I am a grammar god as well.
Shame it doesn't give you actual results though.
Shame it doesn't give you actual results though.
Monday, Apr 19, 2004, 12:08 PM
Ryan Farley:
I am only a "Master". If Chris can be a "God" then I must be a real idiot ;-)
Monday, Apr 19, 2004, 12:13 PM
Alberto Demichelis:
I'm only Master, but considering that I'm Italian and I speak english on regular base since 3 years only, I would promote myself to suppastartamarvellousasskickinggod.
Monday, Apr 19, 2004, 12:20 PM
Rick Childress:
I got GG as well.
There can be only one!
There can be only one!
Monday, Apr 19, 2004, 12:45 PM
Eric W. Bachtal:
Thanks for the link. Wish they would show the results, though, as having achieved God status as well, I'm apt to mistrust the whole thing. ;^)
BTW, is the misspelling in the title of your post a little grammer-related joke and/or am I real nerd for even asking? Oh, never mind.
BTW, is the misspelling in the title of your post a little grammer-related joke and/or am I real nerd for even asking? Oh, never mind.
Monday, Apr 19, 2004, 12:45 PM
:
You wrote "wear" as "where" deliberately, right?
Monday, Apr 19, 2004, 12:46 PM
Wilfried Wieser:
Wow, it called me a god as well, though I NEVER speak English actively on a regular basis (my first language is German). I just read Chris' writings.
Monday, Apr 19, 2004, 12:56 PM
bill:
I intentionally answered the questions incorrectly and I still came out as a "Grammar God". I think the programmer may not be a "Programmer God".
Monday, Apr 19, 2004, 1:15 PM
John Bush:
I just lost all respect for this quiz.
I chose the first answer to every question and was told that "You are a MASTER of the English language!".
I chose the first answer to every question and was told that "You are a MASTER of the English language!".
Monday, Apr 19, 2004, 1:20 PM
Anonymous Coward:
LOL - A Finnish English Grammar God here. Few of them took some thinking. Had there been time limit I doubt the result would have been the same. The sneaked/snuck Q was a hard one, as both seem to be acceptable. There was two other questions also that needed some thought like plural of Mr.
Monday, Apr 19, 2004, 1:20 PM
Anonymous Coward:
ROFL.. I answered them wrong on purpose now.
You are a complete and utter BASTARDIZATION of the English tongue!
You are a complete and utter BASTARDIZATION of the English tongue!
Monday, Apr 19, 2004, 1:23 PM
Chris Sells:
Doh! The use of "where" instead of "wear" was an accident, I assure you. : )
Monday, Apr 19, 2004, 1:42 PM
Michael L. Harges:
Anyone run into problems with malicious java scripts after viewing the "all possible results" link?
The anti-virus program stopped most of the stuff, but still my home page was reset, etc.
Mike H.
The anti-virus program stopped most of the stuff, but still my home page was reset, etc.
Mike H.
Monday, Apr 19, 2004, 3:21 PM
AndrewSeven:
A God it seems... and here I thought I was only an evangelist.
http://weblogs.asp.net/andrewseven/archive/2004/04/19/GrammarGodTest.aspx
http://weblogs.asp.net/andrewseven/archive/2004/04/19/GrammarGodTest.aspx
Monday, Apr 19, 2004, 4:27 PM
Andy:
Yep. Don't ever click on the view all results! That place is there to spread malicious stuff not actually do the grammer thing. I run Norton's and it didn't get half of the garbage they put on the machine. Mike check your processes and see if you have one that changes names every time you kill it. If you do it's a malicious spy ware vb app that runs a sub process when the main one quites it's child process restarts it but changes it's name and becomes the parent process. It also fakes that it is running from the win32 folder. To kill it make a copy of the vb run time. Start your pc in dos mode and delete the vb runtime in it's normal folder. Then go in and restart into normal windows mode. You will get an error pop up because that app can't find the vb runtime. Then go search and delete an App called "WinWildApp" and clean the shell code out of your registry that was starting the app in the first place. Then put your copy of the vb run time back in it's folder and you should be good to go. Norton's doesn't find that one for me as it's spy ware not a virus.
Monday, Apr 19, 2004, 4:45 PM
Michael L. Harges:
Well, that was an unpleasant experience.
Chris - I'd recommend removing your link to that POS or at least adding a prominent warning. Discovering that I was a Grammar God wasn't worth the pain of discovering that I was also a Spyware Chump.
Mike H.
Chris - I'd recommend removing your link to that POS or at least adding a prominent warning. Discovering that I was a Grammar God wasn't worth the pain of discovering that I was also a Spyware Chump.
Mike H.
Monday, Apr 19, 2004, 5:19 PM
Luke Hutteman:
another icon to add to your already impressive list? ;-)
Monday, Apr 19, 2004, 8:38 PM
Jason Bentley:
I asked my eight year old to take the test and she got grammer god, also. I am not sure what that means for those of you who did not get that rank!?!?
Tuesday, Apr 20, 2004, 6:27 AM
Buck:
Hey Chris, the view all results page at the end throws the kitchen sink of malicious web pages at the user. I'd take that list off -- the fact that it doesn't give correct answers or scoring was dubious enough.
I always thought of your website as work-safe, if not always totally work-related.
I always thought of your website as work-safe, if not always totally work-related.
Tuesday, Apr 20, 2004, 12:52 PM
Jiho Han:
My machine seems a bit odd after the visit as well. I can't seem to find WinWildApp or any entries in the registry either. I'm not experiencing anything drastic but I'm getting pop-up ads out of nowhere on pages I never used to get.
Anyone else get it and fixed it?
Anyone else get it and fixed it?
Tuesday, Apr 20, 2004, 7:06 PM
Michael L. Harges:
I ended up removing about a half dozen items that were scattered around in places like Windows\Temp, Windows\Downloaded Program Files, etc.
Use TaskManager to check for processes that you don't recognize - I did a Google search for each of the ones that weren't familiar and identified a bunch of them that way.
Also check the registry keys HKEY_LOCAL_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run (HKEY_CURRENT_USER as well) for suspect entries.
Then I'd suggest downloading something like AdAware to have it scan your system.
All in all it took me several hours to get my machine clean again, including time spent with my company's help desk to eradicate the final items that I couldn't get myself. Yeah, it happened on my work machine and while the help desk was very polite about it, I'm certain that the phrase "a developer should know better" was playing in the back of their mind.
I wonder if Chris is reading the comments on this entry - I'm going to drop him an email as well.
Mike H.
Use TaskManager to check for processes that you don't recognize - I did a Google search for each of the ones that weren't familiar and identified a bunch of them that way.
Also check the registry keys HKEY_LOCAL_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run (HKEY_CURRENT_USER as well) for suspect entries.
Then I'd suggest downloading something like AdAware to have it scan your system.
All in all it took me several hours to get my machine clean again, including time spent with my company's help desk to eradicate the final items that I couldn't get myself. Yeah, it happened on my work machine and while the help desk was very polite about it, I'm certain that the phrase "a developer should know better" was playing in the back of their mind.
I wonder if Chris is reading the comments on this entry - I'm going to drop him an email as well.
Mike H.
Tuesday, Apr 20, 2004, 9:20 PM
Michael L. Harges:
Andy -
I didn't have the chance to say thanks for your suggestion yesterday when I was cleaning things up. I appreciate your input.
Mike H.
I didn't have the chance to say thanks for your suggestion yesterday when I was cleaning things up. I appreciate your input.
Mike H.
Tuesday, Apr 20, 2004, 11:36 PM
Andy:
Glad to hear you got it cleaned up. I hope my tip helped. I too spent several hours at home cleaning up after I went to that place via Corey Haines's web log link about it. He didn't know the View all results did that either. I actually ended up using a process dependency spy to find out out which ones were using what .dlls so I could go in, in DOS mode and rip their little throbbing hearts out. Did I mention I hate spyware?
Wednesday, Apr 21, 2004, 6:57 AM
Joe Duffy:
This one bit me too; I even added it to my own blog (now removed). Popups, nasty 404 search hijacking, ...
Interestingly, it appears a malicious JavaScript (function iep()) kickstarts the whole thing; it's referenced within an IFRAME at the top of the page.
Those bastards!
At least it's fairly simple to remove. The steps I took after pawing through my registry and such for half an hour:
1. Under the path \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\URLSearchHooks\,
Delete key {guid A};
Rename key {guid B}_ to {guid B}.
2. Unregister the DLLs in c:\Program Files\TV Media (only one is actually registered, forget which one though).
3. rmdir C:\Program Files\TV Media (might have to restart before you can do it completely, dllhost owns locks on the files).
4. Remove any and all registry references to TV Media (\HKEY...\Run\* in particular).
Looks like that's it!
Interestingly, it appears a malicious JavaScript (function iep()) kickstarts the whole thing; it's referenced within an IFRAME at the top of the page.
Those bastards!
At least it's fairly simple to remove. The steps I took after pawing through my registry and such for half an hour:
1. Under the path \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\URLSearchHooks\,
Delete key {guid A};
Rename key {guid B}_ to {guid B}.
2. Unregister the DLLs in c:\Program Files\TV Media (only one is actually registered, forget which one though).
3. rmdir C:\Program Files\TV Media (might have to restart before you can do it completely, dllhost owns locks on the files).
4. Remove any and all registry references to TV Media (\HKEY...\Run\* in particular).
Looks like that's it!
Wednesday, Apr 21, 2004, 12:14 PM
Josh:
I got hit by the spyware from this quiz. I couldn't believe that noone else was complaining about the spyware. It took me 1 1/2 hours to clean my machine (at work no less!). I had to download and install Ad-aware and Spybot to get rid of all the crap that was not-so-kindly installed on my machine by this quiz. AVOID THIS QUIZ!
Wednesday, Apr 21, 2004, 4:08 PM
James Greygoose:
The quiz doesn't seem too thorough; besides brief distraction, it did lead me to read http://www.make-believe.org/posts/04/04/07/0 and http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000710.html, and to recognise that I only have one chance at this life (Mr. Sell's belief in reincarnation notwithstanding). Time to shut down the computer, I feel.
Tuesday, Apr 27, 2004, 12:24 PM
Duncan Millard:
Chris (and all grammar zealots!), you should check out "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", by Lynne Truss. It's one of those books that everyone should read, available on Amazon and probably plenty of other places.
Friday, Apr 30, 2004, 9:04 AM
