grodscorp@grods.comOCD: Orthographic Compulsive Disorder
 | Posted by The Editor on Thursday 27 March 2008, 12:30 pm Categories: Freaks Tags: Tags: apostrophes, ellipses, ExclamationMarks, OCD, OrthographicFascism |
I’m a self-confessed orthographic Nazi who suffers from OCD (Orthographic Compulsive Disorder). I get irrationally angry when I see incorrectly used apostrophes. I mean, not just kinda grumpy, but ANGRY! I get pictures in my head of people dying violent deaths and a sort of red film appears in front of my vision and I start flexing my knuckles and my teeth clench and I find myself walking into hardware stores asking for prices on chainsaws and…
Oh well, you get the idea.
However, I do take comfort in the fact that at least two people share my disorder. Bridgit Gread hates it when people put an exclamation mark inside brackets in the middle (!) of a sentence. Bron goes postal when people… overuse… ellipses…
Now, when Bridgit, Bron and I had our OCD support group meeting last night we decided that it would become increasingly easier to cope with our conditions as we found more people who share it. So, GrodsReaders, can you please share with us your own OCD triggers in comments?
GrodsThink Ep.31 (16/9/08)
