Good question
If there’s an Oxford Comma, why isn’t there also a Cambridge Comma? Or maybe it has merely been overtaken by what I call the “Shatner-Walken Comma,” which runs something like: “What, do you mean, a Cambridge, comma? All you, need, is more, cowbell. And, Yeoman Rand.” Powerline’s.s The Week in Pictures Pictures coming after coffee
Grammar Joke!
Your USA Today
With a weekly circulation of 1,021,638 and an approximate daily reach of seven million readers… And apparently zero editors. This is 3rd grade stuff, right?
Eats shoots and leaves
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Hope Abounds!
Check this out: Social media encourage James S. Robbins in USA Today; and Social media have Roger L. Simon at PJMedia. Two counts of correct grammar in one day! The data are overwhelming!
I chuckled out loud
But shouldn’t the end quotation be to the right of the period? Asking for a friend. Via Powerline’s The Week in Pictures
I should take the dogs to the pasture
but instead I’m wandering around the World Wide Web. The story of the Melungeons is at once a footnote to the history of race in America and a timely parable of it. They bear witness to the horrors and legacy of segregation, but also to the overlooked complexity of the early colonial era. They suggest
“… no language known to man.”
The best of them are bad writers of English; the others write no language known to man. Just need to get that out there, man. Also this: Now, it should seem a matter of course to say that if you do not know who Michael Faraday and William Harvey are you have no business setting
Comma, comma, comma
I am a fan of the Oxford comma. In fact, I follow The Oxford Comma on Twitter. For some unfathomable reason, some folks are not fans of the Oxford comma. One Emma Green is preparing to take them on: Some people, apparently, disagree—including those who follow the AP’s style book, which is most traditional newspaper
Values
One of the most important values parents can give their children is an understanding of the importance of caring for the world around them. For hardline progressives, that involves recycling. The rest of us care more about people. What the actual, literal, actual flip do those words actually really in real life mean? One of
S. Pl. That didn’t take long
Somebody who is going to lead America and the world and demonstrated significant accomplishment in their life. Someone whose ideas and politics are clear. This should grate on your nerves and your ear, and if it doesn’t it should. Is James J. Kilpatrick still alive? He should be.
In which I bangs my feverish head against the walls
Such events seem like happenstance because we don’t really see them coming. Krumboltz suggests that we can make such unexpected opportunities more likely to occur, however, by living an active lifelives. Dear Folks at Acculturated, I enjoy reading your articles, but I do wish you’d get a copy editor. Sincerely, Marica
Do You Agree or Not?
The World-Wide-Web is a vast wasteland. Won’t you join me for a stroll? 5 Incredible Things Dogs Sense Before They Happen Dogs are incredibly [poor word choice, given headline] intuitive and aware of their surroundings. They know when their person is people are sad and can pick up on stress when their households are is in chaos. Some
Department of Redundancy Department, Again?
Nothing written by Socrates remains extant. That’s redundant, right?
What are you implying, Sir?
From The Encyclopedia of Philosophy Volumes 5 and 6 Complete and Unabridged (1967, p66). We were talking about this– the definition of “implication” vs. that of “implicature”— just the other day. And yes. I am well aware that no one besides my loved ones and my own self really cares. But one should care! “Vocabulary and
There ya go; ’nuff said
Mr. Big Food and I had this conversation the other day on the way home from town. Implication: the relation that holds between two propositions, or classes of propositions, in virtue of which one is logically deducible from the other. Implicature: potential inference that is not logical entailment. We should be using the word, ‘implicature’ more. So there
The rules of grammar [comma] and of law
I favor a return to both. (I know it’s a block quote. READ IT ANYWAY!) Ah, the under-appreciated importance of our punctuation friend, the comma. Some writers use far too many. Others don’t use enough. The latter was the case in an Ohio community. And Judge Robert A. Hendrickson in the 12th District Court of
Of Funnies
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Them Folks at Dictionary dot com
I was taken to task the other day. I stated that a sentence such as, “I talked to a committee member and they said ___ ,” was grammatically incorrect. As evidence of *my* mistake, I was offered the dictionary definition of “they” from Dictionary dot com. I have– as all citizens should– several skeptical bones