…there will be no more freezing rain and slush. Soon the sun will vanquish the thick curtains of clouds that were drawn across the sky a few months ago, and green things will soon poke out of the ground. Soon I will have my credit card paid off, and soon thereafter I will save up [...]
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You’ve just gotta love them. I mean they are the kind of people who use the word “friggin’” when they’re REALLY riled up, and then in the next sentence they BEG your pardon for using such foul language. This actually just happened to me…it cracked me up.
I had a similar experience two years ago [...]
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A while ago a friend wore this t-shirt and proudly spread his arms for me to examine it, thinking I’d love it since I’m an English teacher and all:
Ok. Haha. I get it. “Prose before hos,” like “bros before hos” (or, my own personal play on those words, “chicks before dicks”). [...]
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Ok. This is absolute insanity. I stumbled across it a little while ago, and it completely blows me away… not just that Joyce managed to cram all of these words into Ulysses (if you attempted to read the novel in high school or college, you’ll believe it), but that someone actually either spent years assembling [...]
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Today one of my students brought up the inevitable question: why are some words considered bad?
Any good teacher knows that you can’t blow off a legitimate question like that… as long as the “proceed with caution” light is blinking in your teacher conscience. It’s one of those “teachable moments” when you have everyone’s attention, and [...]
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Please pardon me while I pontificate on some of the grammatical/mechanical/usage nightmares that I encounter on a daily basis. I know this might make me seem like a grammar snob and that there are bigger things in life, but really… it’s the little things that matter sometimes. Refined language will get you places in life, [...]
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Two of my favorite words in the English language:
phonetic — this means “as it sounds”… for example, if you spelled “phonetic” phonetically it would be “funetik.” The word contradicts itself. Which leads me to…
monosyllabic – which means “having only one syllable.” By the way, “monosyllabic” has FIVE syllables.
Yes, I do find myself quite witty.
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