I think Joe Brockmeier and I tend to have a lot in common on the subject of comporting oneself, as his recent ZDNet blog entry shows. In that entry, Joe looks at this subject from the practical point of view: How will an employer view your flamefests? But the larger …
Aside to aspell: When one opens up talks with a second party, it’s a dialogue. That is, in fact, a correct spelling in US English, and the abomination dialog is reserved for computery people who don’t have time for niceties like spelling, and typing two extra letters.
Verbatim, from a note sent home in Evie’s “Poetry Folder”: Every Friday your child will bring home their Poetry Folder to share with you. We will be learning a special poem each week. Please have each person that your child reads their poem to initial the page and return it …
Always a slow blogging day when you make yourself quotable. Said this to a friend at work today: I think learning the English language has been the cause of more of my cynicism and misanthropy than any other pursuit, including my frequent dealings with other people.
So next, I’d like someone to explain, pretty please, why gauge is indicated as a spelling error on my F7 GNOME desktop, kthxbai.
This is a very interesting video, but I have a bone to pick. More of a pet peeve. OK, it’s just me being a language fascist. The word “chad” is its own plural. Or rather, the word means an indeterminate amount as opposed to a thing, meaning it can’t really …