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Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds.
Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is in the wrong. There is no other time.
The church says Earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence in a shadow than the church.
If we can't find Heaven, there are always bluejays.
Ambrose Bierce, born this day in 1842.
I used to teach Russian and Ukrainian, and some basic English, to civil servants. Now I teach Russian at a local continued-learning institute. I dabble in Gaelic and Welsh. I'm am amateur photographer and I love birding (in a small way). I'm a Progressive, and a Freethinker, and I know Evolution is a fact - that's FCD, Friend of Charles Darwin (look down the sidebar). I read a lot, and follow women's college basketball. Also I love astronomy, though I'm a rank amateur at it. Most of all, I like living in the reality-based community...
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At 12:19 PM, June 24, 2009
Jan had this to say...
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At 2:07 PM, June 24, 2009
The Ridger, FCD had this to say...
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->Yes, "Write It Right" is more fun (though even more teeth-gnashing) than Strunk and White. It's amazing what the usage mavens were obsessing over only a century ago.
And "Write It Right" in fact was published 100 years ago, in October 1909; in its honor, I have an annotated edition coming out from Walker Books, with one of those long, long titles everyone uses nowadays:
"Ambrose Bierce's Write It Right: The Celebrated Cynic's Language Peeves, Deciphered, Appraised, and Annotated for 21st-Century Readers"
Put it on your reading list!
With a colon, of course!
It will definitely be on my reading list: Jan Freeman and Ambrose Bierce, together at last!
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