I regularly wish I’d said things differently.

But many times I wouldn’t know to change if I hadn’t been outspokenly wrong first.

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We bought stainless steel kitchen appliances a year ago.

I like them a lot, but I know they’re just the new yellow.

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Correctness, of course, is a schoolmarm’s hallucination; there are more double negatives in Shakespeare and Chaucer than on New York’s 10th Avenue.

-Clifton Fadiman quoted in the New York Times by Ammon Shea, author of Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages

(via Kevin Ring)

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• A grammar book I paged through said this sentence is correct. What say you?
• These kinds of books are sad: English serves you. You don’t serve English.
• …and almost everything else I write about language.

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I worked one overnight loading pallets of booze for liquor stores.

This was slightly better than my 2-hour career in telemarketing.

You?

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Maybe I should clear the blog’s musical palate after Dylan’s Christmas album…

Check out Lyle Lovett’s newest: “Natural Forces.” ($4, today only.)

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• I have virtually no familiarity with California, but I have a favorite California song. Don’t you?
• That’s right, I’m not from Texas, but Texas wants me anyway. Right?

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