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Humor: You Keep Using That Word …
Malaproprism class is now in session! To this, we add … "scary" means "frightening," not "frightened." The word is "hurl" not "earl" or "url." [Source: GeekWeek]
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Science: Discovering The Language of Birds
From Beastmaster to The Secret Garden, the idea that humans could communicate with avian life has been a thought buried in human human consciousness for generations. Now, science may have a chance to...
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See Jane Do: Moral Agency and Gender
A grammar lesson from Typhon Blue. The most basic gender role in our society is this: Men act; women are acted upon. This paradigm is old; it is also vast. It shows up in every culture on Earth and...
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A Tiny Word That Makes a Huge Difference
Word choice colors how we see one another: as having attributes, or embodying them. Read the following two sentences: He is black. He is a black. Hmm. We don’t hear the latter much these days. It’s...
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11 Super Annoying Grammatical Errors
There are a few modern linguistic quirks that drive Jeff Nishball absolutely nuts. Including people who are nitpicky about grammar… Recently, someone I barely know took exception to a phrase I used in...
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Dear John: My Boyfriend is a Pathological Slob
A slob boyfriend, a woman’s staunch parents who are meeting her fiancé, and a wife’s embarrassing online grammar. — Dear John, I have a new boyfriend, nice guy, everything’s great. We’ve been seeing...
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The Articulate Man: Why We Don’t Call Each Other “It”
Kip Robisch, on what to do about those pesky gendered pronouns and other steps towards being more articulate. —- One of the things I like about The Good Men Project is that it transcends the old...
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Don’t Blame Me. Blame Thomas, Jefferson
The perils of grammar, and its impact on the Declaration of Independence. — Bad. Grammar. Is. Everywhere. We’ve come to accept poor punctuation, misspellings, and missing capitilization as the price...
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See Jane Do: Moral Agency and Gender
A grammar lesson from Typhon Blue.The most basic gender role in our society is this:Men act; women are acted upon.This paradigm is old; it is also vast. It shows up in every culture on Earth and...
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A Tiny Word That Makes a Huge Difference
Word choice colors how we see one another: as having attributes, or embodying them.Read the following two sentences:He is black.He is a black.Hmm. We don’t hear the latter much these days. It’s...
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11 Super Annoying Grammatical Errors
There are a few modern linguistic quirks that drive Jeff Nishball absolutely nuts. Including people who are nitpicky about grammar…Recently, someone I barely know took exception to a phrase I used in...
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Dear John: My Boyfriend is a Pathological Slob
A slob boyfriend, a woman’s staunch parents who are meeting her fiancé, and a wife’s embarrassing online grammar.—Dear John,I have a new boyfriend, nice guy, everything’s great. We’ve been seeing each...
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The Articulate Man: Why We Don’t Call Each Other “It”
Kip Robisch, on what to do about those pesky gendered pronouns and other steps towards being more articulate.—-One of the things I like about The Good Men Project is that it transcends the old...
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Don’t Blame Me. Blame Thomas, Jefferson
The perils of grammar, and its impact on the Declaration of Independence.—Bad. Grammar. Is. Everywhere. We’ve come to accept poor punctuation, misspellings, and missing capitilization as the price of...
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The Oxford Comma’s Unlikely Origin
Rob Lowe, James Vanderbeek, and Neil deGrasse Tyson all love the Oxford Comma. So where did this dang thing come from and should we embrace it in our writing?— H/T Digg.com—Photo: Vox/YouTube The post...
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To Go Boldly or To Boldly Go, That Is the Question
In the title sequence for Star Trek, William Shatner describes the mission of the USS Enterprise and its crew:“Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its...
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Ethics and Law in Academic Writing
University professors are now seeing more plagiarism than they ever have before. The consequences for these violations are severe ranging from a failing grade all the way up to stripping your...
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Not All Masculinity is Toxic
Embed from Getty Images—As the term “toxic masculinity” gets more widespread, I see more people complain about it. The interpretation is that the term implies that all men are toxic. In reality, it...
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The Best Grammar and Writing Apps
— We are living in a world of progress and development that require constant improvement, growth, and attention to the needs of the time. The way we express our thoughts on paper is one of the most...
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My Top 5 Reasons to Care About Correct Grammar
Let me start by saying this: Nobody’s perfect. We all make grammatical errors from time to time the same way we make mistakes in other areas of our life. I wish we all had personal copy editors, but we...
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