Comments on: Photoshopped Rachael Ray Cover Goes Viral!

By: Grammar Nazi. Your Doing It Wrong

Grammar Nazi. Your Doing It Wrong — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:28:28 +0000

D.E.C.:

Never say “you’ve got.” The correct phrasing is “you have.”

By: Grammar Nazi. Your Doing It Wrong

Grammar Nazi. Your Doing It Wrong — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:25:01 +0000

“Cooking” is undeniably a gerund in this instance. Gerunds are nouns. There is absolutely no argument that you could make that “cooking” is a verb here without re-writing the rules of English grammar.

By: Somethingelse

Somethingelse — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:59:06 +0000

Eat, Ray, Love is pretty bad too, commas or no commas

By: Joshua

Joshua — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:45:23 +0000

Its part of having a open and diversive internet. Ownership on the Internet of anythign that goes on the internet is a grey area at best and there is alot of benefits in that. I am glad you see the humor in it, lesser organizations may have tried to sue.

By: Sue

Sue — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:42:16 +0000

I love the way you responded to someone tampering with your cover. I, too, found the joke amusing and I appreciate that someone at your fine magazine crafted the perfectly balanced response.

By: Dog Eater Corrector

Dog Eater Corrector — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 23:37:41 +0000

Actually, with the commas, it’s grammatically correct. I can’t make out what your “First of all” comment even means — you cannot have a comma after the “and”, but they don’t have a comma there. All the elements are the same. Rachael Ray finds inspiration in cooking. Rachael Ray finds inspiration in her family. Rachael Ray finds inspiration in her dog. If you’ve found a rephrasing that makes more sense to you, that doesn’t make their phrasing wrong. (And there’s no way to win an argument that “cooking” there is not a gerund.) Finally, in my opinion, you’ve got a run-on sentence that starts with “In my opinion”.

By: Cassie

Cassie — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:44:38 +0000

Actually…the commas are used correctly and “cooking” is definitely being used a noun.

Cooking: the art or practice of preparing food.

You can’t say someone is grammatically incorrect because you aren’t fully aware of all forms of a word.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:43:26 +0000

Copy editors in journalism follow the AP Stylebook and do NOT use the serial, or Oxford, comma. Took me some getting used to it in a new job in the government. I love that people feel so passionately about grammar and punctuation! Keep it up!

By: Dog Eater

Dog Eater — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:40:52 +0000

Actually even with the commas, it’s still grammatically incorrect. First of all, you can have a comma after the “and.” Secondly, all elements in a list must be the same. One could argue that ‘cooking’ is a verb in this situation rather than a gerund. In my opinion, the blurb sounds iffy in general perhaps using cooking as the last listed element would make more sense. “Rachel Ray finds inspiration in her dog, her family, and cooking.”

By: ThoperSought

ThoperSought — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:41:36 +0000

I think you guys disagreeing with Chas might want to consider another viewpoint.

Can you remember a time when you had to reread something to be sure you understood it correctly? If you’re reading fast, do you catch every single comma exactly as it was intended?

Putting a word derived from a verb at the head of a list, like they did, is asking for trouble. I can’t say they shouldn’t have done it, but where do you suppose the photoshopper got the idea of doing this?