Punctuation placement is important. It's the difference between this being a certain brand of pancake syrup and...boy syrup. I really don't want to know what boy syrup is.
I never learned how to use a semi-colon(;) in school. I still don't know how to use one now. It is time for me to just admit that I probably won't ever need to know how to use one.
Concerning #grammar & #spelling, I no longer adhere to #prescriptivism as I once did. #Descriptivism dovetails far better with my acquired understanding of language as a living, growing, metamorphosing creature that will not be contained or constrained by any rules we humans try to place upon it.
However.
Choices such as
orientate
conversate
nucular
alot
realitor
michievious
definatly
apart of
will never fail to make me wither away a little on the inside.
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
Proposal: when using "they" as a singular #pronoun the singular form of the verb should also be used. For example: "Let's invite Max. They always makes a party fun!" #grammar
This was distributed today on a flyer at work.
And look, I get it, not everyone is Shakespeare, but how did this flyer get through the multiple levels of review between the person who created it and the person who distributed it without anyone ever saying, "Wait a minute, I'm pretty sure using 'we' and 'they' in the same sentence to refer to the same people is a #grammar problem." #smdh#GrammarPolice
This week, I was a guest for the second time on the delightful "Baseball by Design" podcast to talk about the dash in the name of the team called the Winston-Salem Dash. Should it be a hyphen? Inquiring minds want to know. ;)
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
I don't care what the elites say, I think that items in quotation marks that aren't indicating speech by another person should have the punctuation outside the quotes.
Take this for "example".
This is a petty hill I will die on. Suck it, linguistic cabal.
I am not a native English speaker. I make grammar mistakes, and this can make me difficult to understand. Instead of nagging colleagues to proofread my writing, I decided to find a tool to correct my mistakes and help me learn along the way.
I evaluated four popular tools to make an informed decision. Here is a tale of Privacy Policies, slapping OpenAI on products to catch up with competition, and grammar checkers.
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