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  1. Latest right-mode wrapping, in Cols Dispatch: "Using his personal cell phone to take and send inappropriate photos to a female employee" pB5
  2. Thanks for the link in your "verse" post! PT @Fritinancy: On the Graffiti Bowl and "versus" becoming "verse." http://bit.ly/8L8JKo
  3. Stranded-preposition avoidance fail: From review of The Blind Side: "a force with which to be reckoned". A force with which to be reckoned?!
  4. @GrammarGirl 's challenge: Rephrase w/o sg "they" or "him/her": "Tell the next person thru the door that they're the winner!" Anyone?
  5. Have now met @GrammarGirl & @EditorMark IRL. Next tweet: a challenge from GG's talk.
  6. Hey, my brother Glen, the Fringe writer and economist, is mentioned on p38 of @GrammarGirl 's book!
  7. Bought my copy of Grammar Devotional today; going to hear @GrammarGirl at my alma mater tomorrow: http://cstw.osu.edu/
  8. Haha! RT @EditorMark: Brilliant. RT @FakeAPStylebook: The passive voice should be avoided by you.
  9. Doug: They played a Lady Gaga song at the skating rink. Me: What'd they play? Adam: Poker Face. Me: Is that 2 words or 3?
  10. D'oh! Meant to say http://nancyfriedman.typepa...
  11. @Fritinancy Thx, Nancy! Your blog's not so bad, either. Http://nancyfriedman.wordpress.com
  12. @Fritinancy When someone says Canada's above the US, I look up at the sky & say "where?".
  13. My brother wrote tomorrow's episode of Fringe. Go, Glen!
  14. For Vets' Day, wrote 2 pcs on "troop": Column at Visual Thesaurus (http://tinyurl.com/ygpsncb) and blog post (http://wp.me/pBWu-EZ).
  15. Wife: I hate when I do stupid things. Me: Me, too. Pause. Me: I mean, I hate when *I* do stupid things, too!
  16. Just goes 2 show thoughts yr kids hav that u nevr suspect until st randomly brings it out. Remind me 2 tel u about the "happydile" sometime.
  17. Saying prayers tonite w kids, ended w amen. Me: Hey, shdnt it be a MAN or 2 MEN? Haha! Doug: That always confused me when I was little.
  18. They say passing Issue 3 would create a constitutionally protected monopoly for casinos in Ohio. Not true - it'd be a DUOpoly! Vote no on 3!
  19. @bgzimmer found a headline containing a zeugma with become-"get" & receive-"get": "Foodies get smug, then porn" http://tinyurl.com/yktdys8
  20. RT @cpdavey: It's actually a good thing when the situation goes from worst to worse. Most likely you meant the opposite, though.