big gay lawyers

[moominmolly]

I just got email from two people who used the abbreviation "BGL" in an offhanded way, sans explanation. One meant "big gay love" (K), and the other meant "bad grammar lawyer".

I dreamt I was driving a Mini when the bridge I was on suddenly disappeared. The water below was only chest-deep, though, so we jumped out of the car, picked it up, and set it on one of the bits of bridge that remained. This worked. I was relieved that I owned a small car and had been keeping up with the weightlifting, but I still couldn't quite heft the car all the way over my head.

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[tablesaw]

BGL==bad grammar lawyer?

Sounds like I need to appropriate that one.

BGL

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, it wasn't meant as "one who applies the law of grammar", but rather as "this one freaking lawyer who seems to think that the comma and semicolon should replace the SPACE in normal punctuation".

But! I'm sure F would be delighted if you perverted the phrase to good ends. :)

Re: BGL

[tablesaw]

I think you misunderstand; I am a proofreader at a law firm. If I had a nickel for every BGL at my firm who disobeyed the most basic laws of spelling and grammar, I wouldn't have to work as a proofreader at a law firm any more. The ones I work for tend to be of the opinion that commas and semicolons are unnecessary, especially in page-long run-on sentences.

Re: BGL

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Hah! Excellent! I didn't realize that.

Perhaps if you mated your BGLs with F's BGL, you'd get a GGL. I doubt it, though -- you'd probably get an Inappropriate Grammar Lawyer.