Mocking Poor Grammar
Since 2007
A noun that is formed from a verb and which describes an action. In English it ends in -ing, eg 'the baking of bread' and 'Smoking damages your health'.
Check out Jeff Jarvis, he of ‘Dell Hell‘ fame, chastising the Times for a redundant word.
They say that each page will have “somewhat fewer words,” which is really bad editing; there are either fewer words or there aren’t; “somewhat” is meaningless and a grammatical waste of one of those precious words left behind.
Imagine if we can entice this man, arguably the world’s most powerful blogger, to fight for our cause.
I’m drunk with power at the very thought of it. Mwah-ha-ha!
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Comment by Paul — 7th August, 2007 @ 2:50 pm