April 2012
34 posts
Intimacy as Text; Twitter as Tongue – The New... →
giantsteppes:
Internet socialization is far closer to a 19th century mode of intimacy than to a dystopian future of tragically disconnected robot prostitutes. There’s a Jane Austen-ish quality to online social life. The written word gains unmatched power and inarguable primacy.
Personal relationships now, to a much greater degree than, say, 30 years ago, hinge on our ability to write — if not...
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In Love, His Grammar Grew →
bbc03indisguise:
In Love, His Grammar Grew by Stephen Dunn
In love, his grammar grew rich with intensifiers, and adverbs fell madly from the sky like pheasants for the peasantry, and he, as sated as they were, lolled under shade trees until roused by moonlight and the beautiful fraternal twins and and…
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Grammar Nazi.
yzapanta:
Whenever I see people’s posts that contains the usage of incorrect grammar, I correct them… Secretly.
In the back of my mind, I just replace the faulty words into the much appropriate ones.
I just don’t want to sound like a total bitch or whatsoever. I just want them to realize their mistakes by themselves. I also want them to have those “”OH GOD WHY” moments. Haa!
I do sound like a...
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rumble tumble: The tension of stacked parentheses →
There are no precise rules about punctuation (Fowler lays out some general advice (as best he can under the complex circumstances of English prose (he points out, for example, that we possess only four stops (the comma, the semicolon, the colon and the period (the question mark and exclamation…
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anthonyforuria53:
There should be a Greek mythological character called Apostrophes.
When two people are separate, probably because of some dispute, he just snuggles between them, takes out some of the unnecessary elements, and brings them together, making them informal and conjoined.
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I'm using limited punctuation to subtly show your...
jackmannequin:
Why don’t you get it?
You.
Uninterested.
In.
Fixed that for ya.
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This Book Needs an Editor: Exodus and Leviticus
We are never EVER going to be able to sell these books. We are going to have to bundle them together with a bunch of other stories and sell them as a unit. Find me an exciting story about the world being destroyed in a flood, or something like that. Maybe we can trick people into buying the set: we’ll say the same guy wrote all of the books and hope nobody notices the style differences.
I...
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“The semicolon is the Cleopatra of punctuation marks: she separates and connects...”
– William Safire, How Not to Write
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