ArrantPedantry
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@ Perhaps next they could bring in a high school business teacher to give the newspaper some tips on how to be profitable.
about 11 hours ago
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in reply to johnemcintyre
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@ Oh, dear. Sadly, in my experience, most high school English teachers really don't have a good grasp of grammar or editing.
about 11 hours ago
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in reply to johnemcintyre
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@ I was going to comment on Tolkien's use yesterday, but I saw that a few commenters beat me to it.
about 13 hours ago
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in reply to StanCarey
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Thanks, Microsoft Autoupdate, for automatically closing my browser, which logged me out of everything.
3:05 PM May 24th
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A new welcome sign.
1:56 PM May 24th
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By my math, a 13-episode pickup & late-Sept. premiere means Community will end exactly when the Mayans predicted it would.
1:30 PM May 24th
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I can't blame random people for wanting to be Geoffrey Pullum's friends when he writes like this:
11:59 AM May 24th
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@ Not to us non-SoCal natives either.
11:44 AM May 24th
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in reply to Fritinancy
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@ The poor caller got flustered and finally said, "You know, like pretty underwear and things?"
10:49 AM May 23rd
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in reply to PeterSokolowski
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@ My wife did cust. service for Sears and had a caller ask for the "[lɑnʒri] department." She thought she meant "laundry."
10:48 AM May 23rd
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in reply to PeterSokolowski
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Spotted in the wild: "'lil" (with an initial apostrophe) for "li'l". That's a new one to me.
10:31 AM May 23rd
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@ The National and Earlimart.
9:32 AM May 23rd
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in reply to grammar_girl
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"Literaliterally": for when you mean "literally" literally, and aren't just intensifying something figurative.
6:48 AM May 23rd
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@ @ "I liked Horze. Horze have other Horze frinds. Horze like carots."
8:18 PM May 22nd
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in reply to KoryStamper
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Dear internets: It's time to stop saying "Wow. Just wow." Thank you.
2:41 PM May 22nd
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@ Agreed on both points.
12:00 PM May 22nd
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in reply to MGrammar
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@ It's too burdensome to the writer or unfamiliar to the reader, maybe? Otherwise, I think it's mostly a knee-jerk reaction.
10:39 AM May 22nd
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in reply to MGrammar
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I'm trying to blog, but my web server keeps flaking out on me. Grr.
8:55 PM May 21st
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@ Well, I don't know how much of a thing it really is. Chicago says it's rare. I've only seen it in print once or twice.
8:19 PM May 21st
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in reply to NyssaSilvester
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@ So was it the proofreader or the author who changed it in the first place? It was you, wasn't it? Now I feel like a jerk.
8:07 PM May 21st
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in reply to NyssaSilvester
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- Name Jonathon Owen
- Location Utah
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- Bio I'm a copy editor and typesetter by day and a grad student in linguistics by . . . well, also by day. By night I try to sleep.
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