March 04, 2009
What a great way to celebrate National Grammar Day than with the brilliant Your Retarded T-Shirt from Busted Tees. If you find any other grammar jokes on T-Shirts pls link in the comments and i’ll update the post Thanks to Soolara on twitter for pointing out it was National Grammar Day You can...
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February 27, 2009
One thing that I am not is touchy about the fact that I love what I love. And I love Moleskine notebooks. And I love manual typewriters, especially the Hermes 3000, and I love quite a lot of other like-minded stuff. Well, Moleskine notebooks are #122 in the list of Stuff While People Like. Sad b...
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February 19, 2009
Over at The Millions, Garth Risk Hallberg has diagrammed a sentence of Barack Obama's, building on the central insight Zadie Smith laid out in her recent essay: This may be the essential Obama gift: making complexity and caution sound bold and active, even masculine... or rather, it may be one facet...
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February 18, 2009
by Jennie Ruby Apostrophes are normally used to indicate possessive, as discussed in a previous article. However, they are occasionally used to indicate the plural in some exceptional situations. One such situation occurs when you are discussing words and letters. When you discuss words and ...
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February 17, 2009
February 05, 2009
MSNBC has an article out this week basically asking if our current stressful social/economic situation might be pushing "spelling snobs" and "grammar grunions" over the edge. (Or see the Netvine version that has comments.) Forget for the moment the framing of that article -- why do people who insist...
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Doug Fisher
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January 30, 2009
Haven't done this in a long time, but I'm inspired by hubby, who IM'd me with "On my desktop is a file of words and phrases that I've seen that drive me crazy.. feel free to add to it.. cringe_worthy.txt" Words / phrases that I cringe at: They could barely make mince meat Low self of steam Whoa is m...
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January 29, 2009
There's an interesting article on the Guardian website today by Emily Bell, who after digesting the latest Stephen Fry podcast, agrees with him that language pedants are a pain in the arse. This is difficult reading, in part, because I'm instinctively quite pedantic about incorrect usage. That said,...
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I had a hard time as I wrote my previous post on the annual Father-Daughter Ball. The front of the post card we received says the theme is: Daddys Are a Girl’s Best Friend. The text side of the card says the theme is: Daddy’s Are a Girl’s Best Friend. Obviously the second one is in...
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January 25, 2009
I’m pretty sure Deron knows this one, though the rest of you may not: falk: verb intransitive: to fart while walking, especially when the motion of the buttocks breaks one long fart into a sequence of momentary staccato farts: usage: “I get so embarrassed at the mall with my stepfather. ...
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