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Chivalry Died 664 Years Ago Today | Con-text Blog
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Defending Against Inappropriate Text Speak. Chivalry Died 664 Years Ago Today. Leave a comment ». Today is the 664th Anniversary of the Battle of Crecy. For many this was the rise of the English longbowmen and the death of Chivalry (a significant number of the French nobility were killed in that single day). The Eve of the Battle of Crecy was immortalized by 19th century poet William Morris in his poem “The Eve of Crecy.”. Da Ev of Crecy. Au on her hed, n Au on her Ft, n. Au whr d hems of her kirtle mEt,.
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Spk softly n carry a BIG stik | Con-text Blog
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Defending Against Inappropriate Text Speak. Spk softly n carry a BIG stik. Leave a comment ». On September 2, 1901, Theodore Roosevelt gave a crowd at the Minnesota State fair a speech on “National Duties.” Frankly finding a copy of the speech is a challenge (I found one, but it was a 20 page PDF). Or put into txt speak:. Spk softly n carry a BIG stik. September 2, 2010 at 8:30 am. Laquo; LBJ’s Gr8 Soc Speech. Spac: d finl frontier. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. You Don't Say.
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Professorial Musings: How Do I Know So Much?
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One of the things I enjoy most about teaching is the ability to connect intellectually with people about language and literature. So. welcome to my Web log (blog) where I'll attempt to do just that with postings that deal with the relevant, the irrelevant, and the just plain silly. View my complete profile. Subscribe in a reader. Enter your e-mail address:. How Do I Know So Much? Quick and Dirty Tricks: Grammar Girl. The Slot: A Spot for Copy Editors. Saturday, June 26, 2010. How Do I Know So Much? By th...
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Nuggets of Gold!: ONE YEAR
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A not-necessarily-inverted-pyramid-style telling of my life and times. Sarah Harmer: Oh Little Fire. Chatham County Line: Wildwood. Carolina Chocolate Drops: Genuine Negro Jig. So Runs the World Away. Josh Ritter: So Runs the World Away. Jay Farrar: One Fast Move Or I'm Gone: Music From Kerouac's Big Sur. Jonathan Safran Foer: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel. Tom Rachman: The Imperfectionists: A Novel. Best record store on this planet. Believe it. What I wish I were funny enough to write.
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Thomas Pyles | Arrant Pedantry
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Language, Logic, and Correctness. In “Why Descriptivists Are Usage Liberals”. I said that there some logical problems with declaring something to be right or wrong based on evidence. A while back I explored this problem in a piece titled “ What Makes It Right? Over on Visual Thesaurus. As I said on Visual Thesaurus, all attempts to answer these questions run into a fundamental logical problem: just because something is. Doesn’t mean it ought to be. But things get even murkier when we try to apply this sa...
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meter | Arrant Pedantry
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You Are Not Dr. Seuss. Tags: Dr. Seuss. Green Eggs and Ham. A couple of weeks ago, Nancy Friedman. Tweeted a link to an article. About Netflix’s forthcoming adaptation of Green Eggs and Ham. And sadly but predictably, whoever wrote the press release about the announcement felt compelled to write in Seussian verse, despite having no idea how to do so. Here’s the official press release. And here’s the poem—and I use the term loosely—in all its terrible glory:. Issued from Netflix headquarters. I have to ad...
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Throw Grammar from the Train: "Near miss" as Orwellian euphemism
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Throw Grammar from the Train. Notes from a recovering nitpicker. Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Near miss" as Orwellian euphemism. The Word column first published in The Boston Globe, February 8, 1998). Tom Devaney of Lynnfield, speaking for many others, writes to beg, "Please tell me: What is a near miss? It's one of the most nitpicked idioms of recent decades, poor old near miss. To expose their logical flaws. But for the most part, usage commentators give their blessing to near miss. Was the industry's way of...
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Julias Kartoffelkiste: Kurzgeschichte: Besuche in der Welt der Anderen
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Information in English / Tietoa suomeksi / Information på svenska. Hat es mich nach Finnland verschlagen? Ausgerechnet „Kartoffelkiste“? Der Name „Sileas“? Hat dieses Blog keine Kommentarfunktion und wie kann man mich dennoch kontaktieren? Wie ist das hier. Oder auch: Was ist das für ein komisches Logo unter dieser Fragenliste? Mittwoch, 29. Juni 2011. Kurzgeschichte: Besuche in der Welt der Anderen. Themen: Neuro-Psycho, Schreiben, Trauerarbeit. Der vom Netzwerk Autismus-Kultur. Italienisches und indisc...
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Politics | Word Person
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Stories and essays, et cetera. July 9, 2015. Saw someone walking around the other day with a semicolon tattoo, and I thought: Well, that’s kind of interesting. Simple, graceful, understated. Had no idea what it meant, or that it even meant anything at all people get really dumb and … Continue reading →. December 3, 2012. The language of Abraham Lincoln. October 28, 2012. An exciting development in political punctuation! October 20, 2012. A heaping helping of alphabet soup. I had a boss once who hated acr...
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