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Fossil Poetry
- Is This the Future of Punctuation?!
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Fossil Poetry
- Vive la difference and all that, but why do some Americanisms irritate people? My personal bête noire: "awesome", especially when used to replace "thank you". So what Britishisms irritate Americans and antipodeans?
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Fossil Poetry
- Word Police: Chav. You can talk about it but you can't use it.
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Fossil Poetry
- The Case-Please Hear Me Out-Against the Em Dash. I rarely use em dashes because I find them unappealingly long, and prefer a spaced en dash. As to the shape of the resulting sentence - which is the whole point of the article - I'm partially guilty, m'lud. I usually find the flow of a sentence can be improved upon by moving a dash-enclosed phrase ( Read more... )
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Brrrraggadocio
"There are two types of people in the world: Winners and... I don't know how to say the word, I can't say it."
One of the specific reasons I've never watched The Apprentice, although if I could ever tolerate the chilling arrogance of these irritating Losers it looks like I might be in for a few good laughs. -
Fossil Poetry
- Would You Please Fucking Stop? Ursula Le Guin has a rant on unimaginative profanity. (thanx nwhyte)
Makes me wish I'd hung on to my copy of Tony White's science fictional Charlie Uncle Norfolk Tango, linguistically colourful in the extreme, and now also extremely rare. - Would You Please Fucking Stop? Ursula Le Guin has a rant on unimaginative profanity. (thanx nwhyte)
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Fossil Poetry
- Getting to the root of 'OK'. I was also aware of the connection with Martin Van Buren, 'Old Kinderhook', and the article dovetails this with OK's probable origin in Boston. In written form I've definitely developed a strong preference for the elegant "okay" as opposed to the awkward-looking "OK", which in comparison just looks clumsy in the middle ( Read more... )