Oct 13, 2009
22 posts about words and grammar in celebration of English Language Day
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- The linguistic superstition of referencing swear words without saying them.
- 20 adjectives to replace retarded (because it’s offensive and not that creative anyway)
- Women don’t talk more than men (at least no studies show it like some claim).
- Grammar, slang, and baby mamas
- Big words: Know many, use few.
- 7 signs you talk too much and 3 ways to fix it.
- Language is a complementary, moist, lemon-scented cleansing square.
- Irony: Looking up uff da to make sure I spell it correctly so as to not look stupid.
- This is preaching! Startle us with the obvious.
- More and more smart people are forsaking the idea that they shouldn’t be singular.
- When someone’s apologizing, it’s a good time to put away editorial fussiness.
- Have you ever seen a zeugma in the wild?
- “How are ya?” doesn’t mean, “How are you?” It means Hello, and that’s OK.
- If you wouldn’t make a kid feel ugly, fat, or stupid, don’t make them feel disfluent.
- 11 things linguists assume that many non-linguists will still disagree with
- A grammar book I paged through said this sentence is correct. What say you?
- If you speak, you know grammar. If you’ve been told otherwise you were deceived.
- 22 English words that still exist almost entirely because of hymns and the King James Bible
- Don’t logic chop linguistic heads off: Grammar isn’t deduced from first principles.
- Why it is both morally essential and virtually useless to stand against grammatical elitism.
- They ain’t the same: ain’t serves a purpose in standard and formal English that isn’t doesn’t.
- These kinds of books are sad: English serves you. You don’t serve English.
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A superlative collection. Thank you for sharing! Happy English Day!
Abraham: You’d probably enjoy the books of Jeremy Smith about the English language, its use and development. He’s quite a sophisticated thinker.
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Middle-English-Simon-Horobin/dp/0195219503/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255458515&sr=8-1 and http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=jeremy+j+smith&x=0&y=0
English Language Day? You would think that was something inaugurated by some Arizona good ol’ boys in their border pickups.
But that appears to be far from the truth. I looked it up.
Off post subject:
Wow, now I see where you get your hair from! It took me by surprise when I saw his picture circa ’79!
http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2009/10/14/30-years-ago-today-how-god-called-john-piper-to-become-a-pastor/
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