(via suitep)
Another reason why grammar and punctuation is important.
(via Ben - Facebook) When I first read the article summary, I was trying to figure out whether the part of the attack was the attacker tying up their victim and using their toes to type messages to people, or whether it was the victim who did it of their own volition. Stupid English language.
Anyway, a victim of a home invasion was tied to her bed while her attacker robbed her. After he left, she managed to get help by using her toes to IM her boyfriend to call 911.
On a nerdy note, I find the most amazing thing about this story is that she was able to use her toes to hit Ctrl-Alt-Del to unlock the screen.
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"Do not put statements in the negative form. And don’t start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all. De-accession euphemisms. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky. Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague."
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William Safire, Great Rules of Writing (via wordpainting & conorh).
I will sheepishly admit it took me two reads to work out what was going on here.
(via travors)
Love it.
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No LOL.
I just had to explain what an Internet meme was to a (younger) friend/colleague. I feel hollow. What happened to my plans to be a well-read, slightly pretentious intellectual? I think they disappeared when I discovered LOLcats and Charlie the Unicorn. Oops.
Yes… The other day I was out with my family and excused myself to attend another engagement with “I has to go”. My sister asked me if I was trying to speak like Gollem, and I told them ‘no’, then tried to explain LOLcats.
When I had finished my brother simply asked “What is wrong with you?”.
And suddenly, all my efforts at advocating correct spelling and English grammar seemed worthless…
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Every now and then I get annoyed when I read the news and find it riddled with spelling and grammatical errors. What happened to proof-reading and spell-check?
“Relieved” is not not spelled “releaved” and it’s “staunched” not “stanched”. “In said only that” - what? What is this English of which you speak?
Gnash.
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