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.
Does anyone know of a good (and hopefully also free) online forum where someone can ask questions related to the Chicago Manual of Style? Chicago Manual of Style’s page has an online question form, but it seems like it’s one of those “we’ll answer your question if we get to it” type of things. I need to ask questions...
Yeah I know what you mean, I’ve reached a point where I can just about stomach going there if a Google-search finds relevant information on something I’m researching, but I draw the line at active participation or even logging in.
I’ve done a quick search and found a list of Discord boards that are tagged with #grammar.
This one looks promising, and the list says there are currently 20 people online (take with grain of salt, though): The Grammar People
If you could share your specific question, maybe there’s more research that can be done (or maybe someone here knows the answer) 🤔
It’s the subconscious ones that you don’t need to explicitly teach native speakers, because they give us such insight to how the language centres of our brains work.
In English, examples include:
Why tock-tick sounds wrong (something to do with the vowels)
Why red, little house sounds wrong (we have a very structured way to string adjectives and we all implicitly know it)
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.
#WritersCoffeeClub Ch 6 Nbr 12 — Share your personal grammar/typography style, if you have one.
A hallmark of my style is /occasional/ sentences the length of a paragraph, the result of a character narrating in list form, continuing on, telling more, adding what she feels, etc., until she runs out of steam or comes to an unfortunate conclusion. These sentences never require you to go back to an earlier clause to decipher them and resemble a ramble, but it /is/ first person narration, so that's okay. Usually.
Sometimes I wax telegraphic. Exclamatory. With short. Or single word sentences. Definitely!
It says something when the beta reader comes back and says so-and-so wouldn't say it that way, then tells me she'd ramble or be telegraphic at that point.
Another thing: I will use the /exact/ word rather than dumbing down the language. I don't go all thesaurus on readers, however. I must already know the word.
Given the choice of using an American colloquialism or a British one, I go for the Brit. Brilliant. Innit? A constabulary is more evocative than a police force any day. In my defense, some of my stories include royalty or have a social structure based on UK peerage.
I do try to write transparent prose that doesn't get in the way of the story. My worst extravagances disappear during revision.
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
This book is just a bit more poorly edited than usual re typos and grammatical issues. Small publisher I guess, though that's really no excuse. (You had one job etc.) #Travel#Grammar
📚 Online forum to ask Chicago Manual of Style related questions?
Does anyone know of a good (and hopefully also free) online forum where someone can ask questions related to the Chicago Manual of Style? Chicago Manual of Style’s page has an online question form, but it seems like it’s one of those “we’ll answer your question if we get to it” type of things. I need to ask questions...