25 Jan 2012
Another Oxford comma illustration. The Stalin one is a little funnier.
28 Nov 2011
Chimps May Have the Ability to Understand Language Like Humans
I read about this sine-wave form speech with dolphins too, pretty cool. Thwarts the naysayers!
10 Oct 2011
Good find, mom! Top of the list for things that annoy me: when clients play editor and take out my serial commas! It’s only a short while ago that you could omit the last comma in a list but it’s never wrong to include it! And sometimes, like here, it’s wrong to exclude it.
4 Jul 2011
Exclamation Points and E-Mails - Cultural Studies - NYTimes.com
Pish, whatevs. Use ‘em if you got ‘em!
17 Apr 2011
Snarky
I’m getting so tired of this word. Here’s the definition from Free Dictionary:
snark·y
adj. snark·i·er, snark·i·est Slang
1. Rudely sarcastic or disrespectful; snide.
2. Irritable or short-tempered; irascible.
People keep calling vegansaurus snarky and imply that’s something they like but it seems like a bad word. I’m kind of like, only snarky people use the word snarky. But it’s not so much the definition as the connotation; it’s totally like a tween computer geek word. I’m not a tween computer geek.
Haaa. That was kind of snarky, I believe. But maybe it’s like when you call someone defensive and then 90% of anything they say sounds defensive. It’s not their fault.
