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...
Apr 30th
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Apr 29th
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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…
Apr 28th
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Apr 27th
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Apr 27th
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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...
Apr 26th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 24th
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Apr 22nd
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Apr 21st
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Apr 19th
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Apr 18th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 16th
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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…
Apr 15th
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Apr 14th
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Apr 13th
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Apr 12th
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