Don’t talk about something being essential without having an answer to the question “For what?”

Then make sure your audience knows, too.

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Let me know if you or your organization would like to dirt-cheaply publicize your Twitter account.

(Thanks to ChurchCrunch for the idea.)

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How’s Dylan’s voice on his Christmas album? Even better than usual.

How’s the music? As kitschy as……Christmas music.

What’s your take?

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I say, “Leave your brother alone” more than any other sentence.

Versions of “You don’t need to yell” are also heard regularly.

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1. The linguistic superstition of referencing swear words without saying them.
2. 20 adjectives to replace retarded (because it’s offensive and not that creative anyway)
3. Women don’t talk more than men (at least no studies show it like some claim).
4. Grammar, slang, and baby mamas
5. Big words: Know many, use few.
6. 7 signs you talk too much and 3 ways to fix it.
7. Language is a complementary, moist, lemon-scented cleansing square.
8. Irony: Looking up uff da to make sure I spell it correctly so as to not look stupid.
9. This is preaching! Startle us with the obvious.
10. More and more smart people are forsaking the idea that they shouldn’t be singular.
11. When someone’s apologizing, it’s a good time to put away editorial fussiness.
12. Have you ever seen a zeugma in the wild?
13. “How are ya?” doesn’t mean, “How are you?” It means Hello, and that’s OK.
14. If you wouldn’t make a kid feel ugly, fat, or stupid, don’t make them feel disfluent.
15. 11 things linguists assume that many non-linguists will still disagree with
16. A grammar book I paged through said this sentence is correct. What say you?
17. If you speak, you know grammar. If you’ve been told otherwise you were deceived.
18. 22 English words that still exist almost entirely because of hymns and the King James Bible
19. Don’t logic chop linguistic heads off: Grammar isn’t deduced from first principles.
20. Why it is both morally essential and virtually useless to stand against grammatical elitism.
21. They ain’t the same: ain’t serves a purpose in standard and formal English that isn’t doesn’t.
22. These kinds of books are sad: English serves you. You don’t serve English.

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