2 month ago
Rod Begbie : It's a Different Set of Rules - The Daily WTF - Forwarded to me by a co-worker after a grammar argument. "The comma is supposed to go inside the quotes." #
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7 month ago
philgyford : The Lost Tools of Learning - Dorothy L. Sayers suggested reviving the Trivium -- grammar, rhetoric and dialectic -- as children's education. Learning how to learn, rather than learning subjects.
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9 month ago
deusx : Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - ""Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated constructs."
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11 month ago
adamrg : Whatever: Writing Tips for Non-Writers Who Don't Want to Work at Writing
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14 month ago
philgyford : BBC News | Grammatical Triumphs - Needs more frequent updating, but otherwise splendid.
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18 month ago
wearehugh : Flickr: The Atrocious Apostrophe's Pool
Rod Begbie : Flickr: The Atrocious Apostrophe's Pool - Grocer's apostrophe spotting's. [via] #
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18 month ago
Richard Rutter : When to use were instead of was – the subjunctive - An occurrence presupposed to be contrary to fact; ‘if’ & ‘would’.
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23 month ago
Rod Begbie : Literally, A Web Log - "An English language grammar blog tracking abuse of the word literally". Because that drives me hopping mad. Literally. [via] #
Milo Vermeulen : Literally, A Web Log - An English language grammar blog tracking abuse of the word "literally" - Literally, A Web Log - An English language grammar blog tracking abuse of the word literally [via]
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42 month ago
jimray : What is the plural of 'virus'? - It's 'viruses', not virii
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cobra libre : thinly developed on language column about izzle words - it mentions the use of infixes in 'double dutch bus,' then more or less jumps to the 90s... deeply unsatisfying.
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cobra libre : forever the mirror of others' - 'final periods and quotation marks: harder than you thought'
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50 month ago
cobra libre : life without throwing - a nice response to the recent brouhaha about the Pirahã and their poor counting ability
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52 month ago
cobra libre : i am skeptical - i condone writing with conscious clarity, but give me a break, english sentences aren't logical assertions, and we rarely take them to be so
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52 month ago
cobra libre : the insultingly easy es&l game - god help you if this leaves you feeling even slightly self-satsified
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52 month ago
cobra libre : es&l teeming with mistakes and inconsistencies - by louis menand, with a bonus digression on speech, writing, and the author's "voice"
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52 month ago
Graham Leuschke : Reads, Chortles, & Smirks: why nobody's learning anything from Eats, Shoots & Leaves - it's all about feeling better, than the other, guy
cobra libre : reads, chortles, & smirks - personally, i don't speak british english
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53 month ago
cobra libre : apple dumplin' shop - a brief overview of american english cussin'
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53 month ago
cobra libre : searle's chinese room argument - sometimes software testing is like this
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53 month ago
cobra libre : a field guide to prescriptivists - and now i want to read about bacteria
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