I've seen "solution" verbed quite a bit, as in "Let's solution that", but until today I don't remember seeing its complement, the nouning of "solve": "What are the solves?"
Rule 1 of verbing and nouning: It's nearly always older than you think. OED's first citation for "solve" as a noun? 1780.
Hey, #WritingCommunity, I have a grammar question that research hasn't answered. Would you say, "each step takes him further away from the house" or "each step takes him farther away from the house"? #grammar
that moment when your inner grammar Nazi cringes at something someone said on tv. Person on tv said, "I seen my primary care doctor about 3 years ago." No, no, no! no! you saw them 3 years ago. #grammar
Someone online a long, long time ago referred to the grocer’s apostrophe as “holy shit; here comes an s” and I hear it in my head every single time I see an apostrophe doing a plural’s job. #grammar#EatsShootsAndLeaves
Not long ago, someone posted a comment about the news reports that say someone was 'fatally killed.'
I can't seem to shake that phrase, esp when it is used so much in the news.
Sure, you can be fatally wounded, fatally shot, fatally stabbed, etc, but 'fatally killed?'
"So and so has been fatally killed by a shark...' Shouldn't it be, "So and so has been killed by a shark..." or 'So and so was killed by a fatal shark bite."
This is something I first noticed about a year ago, give or take. Like, I'll say "the sky is purple" and someone will respond with "it's blue?" Why do people do that?...
Memory aid: no possessive pronoun in English contains an apostrophe. If it has an apostrophe, it's a contraction.
Possessive pronouns: his her/hers its their/theirs whose my/mine
"Her umbrella" vs. “That's hers” (same with their, my).
"It’s” is a contraction: “it is.” "It's a shame.”
"Who’s” is a contraction: “who is.” "Who’s up for pizza?”
Her's and their's are... just wrong.
Classic example of a dangling modifier in Leon McCarron's book 'The Land Beyond'. Good read in general, mind you - about a walk through the Holy Land. #Travel#Grammar
I almost always prefer the European standard of a spaced en dash ( – ) to the US’s unspaced em dash (—). It’s less distracting and feels more semantically accurate as a separator of clauses. (Keeping in mind that every font has different dash proportions.)
Here’s a rare case in which an em would reduce confusion. For a quick moment, I mistook that en for a minus.
Just posted about how I disagree with the (often condescending) insistence on using French grammar in English for French borrows like "attorney general". #Linguistics#Grammar#Writing
#Grammar people, I need your help! I just corrected a line from a client so that it now says, "The creator of Fortnite and the Epic Games Store," and the client is asking me why "Epic Game Store" gets a "the" but "Fortnite" doesn't, and for the life of me I don't know the actual academic grammar rule that explains why. Can anyone help?
I was wondering if there’s a specific word for schadenfreude for code.
“Pleasure derived from reading other people’s bad code”
I’m not a german speaker. In English, there isn’t a single word that captures this. I think the phrase “code shade” gets pretty close. Shade in the cool kids vernacular meaning “a casual or disrepectul manner toward something”
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OC Why did it become a normal thing for people to end statements with a question mark when they correct someone? Is it a TikTok trend that blew up?
This is something I first noticed about a year ago, give or take. Like, I'll say "the sky is purple" and someone will respond with "it's blue?" Why do people do that?...