1. Well, those allergies turned out to be a bonafide cold or virus or whatever. (I can never tell them apart.) I've been sick all weekend. Congestion, skin sensitivity, headaches, a bit of a fever, and total fatigue. I did buy a neti pot; while it helped a little, it wasn't as effective as I'd hoped. I seem to be over the worst of it now, but I
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(And I'm so glad to hear the optimistic news about your family. All my best to you and yours.)
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Journalistic grammar has devolved. I notice it constantly and it irks. Don't these people have editors?
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Nobody has an in-house copyediting department these days, so far as I can tell -- and it was the copyeditors (those kindly souls who, when asked, "Does anal-retentive have a hyphen?" will reply with a straight face, "Only when it's used as an adjective") who kept the writers on the grammatical straight and narrow. Most book publishers hire freelancer contractors to do their copyediting on a piecework basis; entirely too many magazines and newspapers appear to have dispensed with copyediting entirely. (Because a good grammar checker and spelling checker can do the same job just as easily, right? Right?)
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The serial (aka Oxford) comma will never die! At least not until they pry my keyboard from my cold dead fingers.
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VIVE LA GRAMMAR!!!!
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