Comments for Everything Language and Grammar http://languageandgrammar.com Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:03:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Proof that Dictionaries Are Not Source for Proper Grammar: “Thx” Now in Dictionary by languageandgrammar http://languageandgrammar.com/2013/03/14/thx-is-now-a-word/#comment-3819 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:03:41 +0000 http://languageandgrammar.com/?p=4282#comment-3819 I’m basing my post on the linked article that calls it a word.

]]> Comment on Proof that Dictionaries Are Not Source for Proper Grammar: “Thx” Now in Dictionary by Tom S. Fox http://languageandgrammar.com/2013/03/14/thx-is-now-a-word/#comment-3818 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:19:44 +0000 http://languageandgrammar.com/?p=4282#comment-3818 “thx” was entered as an abbreviation, not as a word.

]]> Comment on How to Write Good by Allen http://languageandgrammar.com/2013/03/20/language-humor/#comment-3805 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:22:23 +0000 http://languageandgrammar.com/?p=4288#comment-3805 Looks like a list mostly ripped off from William Safire’s rules of writing.

]]> Comment on Descriptivism Versus Prescriptivism by Maggie http://languageandgrammar.com/2013/01/14/descriptivism-versus-prescriptivism/#comment-3665 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:39:37 +0000 http://languageandgrammar.com/?p=4280#comment-3665 That article was shared at my work. I would fight to the death for the Oxford comma. :)

]]> Comment on Subjunctive as a Way of Life! by languageandgrammar http://languageandgrammar.com/2012/12/30/subjunctive-as-a-way-of-life/#comment-3660 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:23:31 +0000 http://languageandgrammar.com/?p=4272#comment-3660 It is a mood and not a tense, but I didn’t say either tense or mood in the article, just talked about the subjunctive.

Oh, I do see that I mistakenly identified it as a tense in the headline; it’s been corrected.

]]> Comment on Subjunctive as a Way of Life! by Tom S. Fox http://languageandgrammar.com/2012/12/30/subjunctive-as-a-way-of-life/#comment-3658 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:31:51 +0000 http://languageandgrammar.com/?p=4272#comment-3658 Why should I take grammar advice seriously that comes from somebody who doesn’t know the difference between a tense and a mood?

]]> Comment on Managing Expectations by Rebecca Einstein Schorr http://languageandgrammar.com/2012/12/04/managing-expectations/#comment-3634 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:48:32 +0000 http://languageandgrammar.com/?p=4264#comment-3634 OR…it can be used by husbands when dealing with wives (we need to manage wifely expectations about the unfolded laundry).

]]> Comment on Managing Expectations by Rebecca Einstein Schorr http://languageandgrammar.com/2012/12/04/managing-expectations/#comment-3633 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:46:56 +0000 http://languageandgrammar.com/?p=4264#comment-3633 It can even be used by spouses (we need to manage my wife’s exceptions about the laundry situation).

]]> Comment on Weather Talk on Science Friday by Reginald Sagel http://languageandgrammar.com/2012/01/05/weather-talk-on-science-friday/#comment-3631 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:25:58 +0000 http://languageandgrammar.com/?p=4125#comment-3631 I am always concerned about good weather because i always took photographs of landscape. -

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]]> Comment on Simple, Direct Language Is Always the Best Choice! by Anne Wingate http://languageandgrammar.com/2012/08/03/simple-direct-language-is-always-the-best-choice/#comment-3305 Mon, 06 Aug 2012 08:56:50 +0000 http://languageandgrammar.com/?p=4242#comment-3305 Grammar and mechanics are always important, but style is almost as important, and diction may be more important. As Kipling put it, “The magic is in the words,” and if you choose the wrong words you are killing the soul of your work.

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