-On "Strunk and White's toxic little book of crap" (a direct quote and my new favorite phrase in the world) and self-appointed guardians of grammaticality: a back-post from LanguageLog. (En anglais seulement)

-Quote of the day/citation du jour:

"All people will become, are in the process of becoming, aged, disabled, and dead."
(C'est-à-dire, " ( Read more... )

I mention it because, in my fit of fevered 1-am-packing (can't sleep, empty suitcases will eat me), I found a response paper I wrote for my advisor's class this past semester. It feels profound to me, although as I recall, it sparked my last existential crisis (before the "hearing" thing). Anyway, I welcome comments from the two of you who read ( Read more... )