March 2012
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This book needs an editor: Jonah 1
God tells Jonah to go to Nineveh to tell the people who live there that they are wicked. Instead, Jonah runs away. In some ways, I can’t blame him; I wouldn’t want to be deployed to Iraq, either. He gets on a boat, and a huge storm hits. All of the sailors are terrified, and they start throwing stuff overboard. And this book needs an editor. Where is Jonah, you might ask? He’s taking a nap! ...
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Squee!
Reader-submitted question: What do you think of dashes in writing? I’m speaking specifically of the em dash, as opposed to the en dash (which is necessary for ranges of values, etc) or the horizontal bar (for introducing quoted text in some styles/languages). I use the em dash a lot in my style of writing – both correctly and sometimes technically incorrectly – and I like it quite a bit, but I...
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“Today I interviewed someone who handed me a résumé saying that he’d worked at...”
– Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
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Rachel's Head -: Punctuation & Grammar Jokes →
rachelshead: A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves. A dangling modifier walks into a bar. After finishing a drink, the bartender asks it to leave. A question mark walks into a bar? Two quotation marks “walk into” a bar. A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to…
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I'm a capital letter.
Always making things personal. Always starting something new. Attracting attention. Loud and audacious in large groups. And usage may vary according to convention.
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“If I were the sort of person who sends salacious text messages, which I’m...”
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““There’s two kinds of women—those you write poems about and those you don’t.” ”
– Jeffrey McDaniel (via bookstorecouture) Actually, the two types of people are those who can correctly use a verb and those who cannot. (via failingatgrammar)
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“Semi-colons represent love and compromise, bringing two complete clauses...”
– Me (via are-you-a-witch-or-not)
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What made Deep Throat leak? | Jack Shafer →
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It really an truly bothers me & grinds my gears...
Reblogged from carribeansexsymbol Oh, dear Lord. This cannot be the next generation of grammarians. 
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