You are in a small, independent bookstore. You select a book for possible purchase, ask the person manning the counter about the price, and find that it is a little too expensive to justify buying. What is your response?1. Oh, that's more than I wanted to spend, but thanks ( Read more... )

Dear Everyone (especially bookstore customers):

The following usages of the English language are now off limits:

"internet blog"

"fictional novel"

"cheapest price"There is no such thing as a non-internet blog as they are inherently internet-based. Novels are by definition fictional. "Cheapest" means "lowest price" so when you add another "price ( Read more... )

Dear Everyone:

(Actually, this is mostly directed at Hollywood, because three different TV shows have stepped on this particular squid of mine in the past few weeks, but I see no reason not to include everybody else, as well.)

Please figure out the who/whom thing. PLEASE. When the pronoun is the object of the sentence, it's whom. Not who. By whom ( Read more... )

Dear self-published authors ( Read more... )

Dear people with clipboards ( Read more... )

Dear snooty clients ( Read more... )

Dear nylon manufacturers ( Read more... )

Dear snooty clients:

Please note for future reference that, should you become lost while attempting to reach our office, you may only kvetch about my (allegedly inaccurate) directions if you actually follow them in the first place. By taking the off-ramp before or after the one listed in my (in fact, completely reliable) directions, you forfeit ( Read more... )

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