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Less Mistakes Please
Don't major TV networks have resident grammar checkers? They should. Nancy Burke writes: Has no one else written about the ear-shattering mistake on the TNT Network? On their Movie promos they say: "More Movies, LESS commercials". It feels like fingernails on the blackboard to me. Of course it should ...
That’s a sweet ass-hyphen
Because it's Friday, here is a cartoon for your delight and delectation: Facebook | Photos from Good Grammar Is Hot
Under Neat that
This is a couple of months old now. I had intended to post this in October but... well I just forgot. The background story is as follows. A man orders a cake for his departing colleague. ...
Me, myself and I
A reader has emailed in.Hi,One of my biggest pet peeves is when people on Facebook or Myspace will put captions on their photos reading "John, Bill, and I" or "Mark and I at the beach". Shouldn't it be "John, Bill, and me"? You wouldn't show a picture to ...
Calm down, take a deep breath and count to 10.
Recently seen on a friend's Facebook wall:AAAAAARRRGH! It makes me want to break something.I don't know why but I expect more from Facebook users than ...
Automated grammar
It really bugs me that Blogger unashamedly tells me that a post has "1 comments". It seems grammar is a problem for application programmers; I suspect this is for two main reasons.Grammar doesn't follow easily measurable logic.Application developers' primary language is usually either php or binary as opposed to ...
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