I especially hate the perfective aspect. If things must take place in the past, let them be continuative, let them be open-ended, let them be imperfective. Let them speak not of things finished but of things begun and things ongoing. It would even be o.k. if they were conditional, or mood-altered and subjunctive, if the statement were "this would ( Read more... )

When the Gremlins of Insecurity manage to crawl out of the box into which one stuffed them, it is well to be armed with the following:

1) A titanium bat of Self Confidence (THWAP! KERPOW! Take that you vile things! Avaunt!)

2) A weighted glove of Cheerful Fatalism (SMACK! BAM! BIFF! Down! Down I say, fell creatures! All will work out just fine! ( Read more... )