So here goes another meme (originally from hereThis one will be full of actual photos of my handwriting (as determined by the poll) so I highly doubt I'll be posting as regularly as I did the song meme! I...might tweak my answers because some of these are a little lame and I already edited some of them because OMG GRAMMAR; LET ME SHOW YOU HOW TO ( Read more... )

What is curious about ‘em is that contrary to popular belief, the apostrophe does not denote the missing letters “th”. In Middle English ‘em was an alternative form of hem (an old pronoun, not the verb, the clothing term or the throat-clearing interjection), which was later displaced by them. So ‘em does not derive from them; in fact it precedes it ( Read more... )

Went up to fskip=120 then decided to stop. Hi people.

Just finished reading Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold Story of English by John McWhorter. Barnes & Noble's online synopsis puts it succinctly:A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar ( Read more... )

http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/2008/01/puppy.html

OMG! This blog is full of <3s and WIN! And this particular post had me "tearing" and trying to hold my "laughter" in at work~!

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-05/ns-trl051408.php

Taylor Mali (of "The The Impotence of Proofreading" and Urbana Poetry Slam! fame) has several appearances scheduled at the Bowery Poetry Club in April, but the only one I'll definitely be able to make is on Tuesday, April 22nd at 7pm.

Anyone who's interested is more than welcome to join me.

There's a bar. ^_~

Oh, you should check this one ( Read more... )

The the Impotence of Proofreading by Taylor Mali

Have I mentioned how much I love grammar, and grammar-related cleverness?

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http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001130.html

Let's talk about redundancy and repetition! <3

This had me giggling at my desk for quite a while.

Taking a never-ending movie quiz on facebook to kill some time this morning, I came across this gem:

"What was the last movie supervised by Walt Disney but died before it was released?"

It's so tragic when movies die before they're released.

The answer is The Jungle Book, btw.

Because of this post and response, I wondered, what is, exactly, the big difference between British and American grammar? Because, although there were some examples of British grammar and punctuation in Eats, Shoots & Leaves that I didn't agree with, I found the book to be wonderful and it filled me with a great joy because well, here was another ( Read more... )