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		<title>Awesome Hurricane Katrina Video</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Yeager, author of Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities and Cloudy and Cool. Awesome is often used to mean something incredibly good, but technically, it means something that inspires awe of any type. When I saw that the video of Hurricane Katrina, released by NASA five years after the devastating storm, the only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=languageandgrammar.com&blog=2288817&post=3520&subd=languageandgrammar&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Point is Mute</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By  Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever This is another example of what I like to call &#8220;Close but no cigarette.&#8221; I don&#8217;t remember where I heard it, as a good blogger should, but I recently heard someone on the television say the incorrect &#8220;the point is mute&#8221; instead of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=languageandgrammar.com&blog=2288817&post=3515&subd=languageandgrammar&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Humorous Resume Mistakes</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever Who doesn&#8217;t enjoy a little humor related to funny typos, mistakes, and wacky statements on a resume or cover letter&#8211;except for those who made the mistake and didn&#8217;t get the job, that is? We all make mistakes&#8211;believe me&#8211;but when I see some of these [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=languageandgrammar.com&blog=2288817&post=3505&subd=languageandgrammar&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Word of the Day: Candwich</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever That&#8217;s right, ladies and gentlemen. We apparently have a new word, candwich. The new word is for a new product: a sandwich in a can. You know me&#8211;I&#8217;m not in favor of just making up new words when our old standards will work fine, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=languageandgrammar.com&blog=2288817&post=3498&subd=languageandgrammar&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Myself Cannot Be the Subject of a Sentence</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do not use myself as the subject of a sentence. Myself and the other -self words&#8212;himself, herself, ourselves, etc.&#8212;are  reflexives, and reflexives cannot be used as subjects. Nominatives should be used as subjects. The nominatives are I, we, he, she, and they. You is both nominative and objective, so it can be used as either [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=languageandgrammar.com&blog=2288817&post=3494&subd=languageandgrammar&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking News: Bank Robber Decides to Not Wait for Police</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever Headline in today&#8217;s Daily Collegian, which is the excellent student newspaper at Penn State: Bank Robber Flees Scene. I have to admit that I was not surprised by that&#8211;rarely do you find a bank robber who decides to wait around for the police to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=languageandgrammar.com&blog=2288817&post=3485&subd=languageandgrammar&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jefferson Mistake in Declaration of Independence</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever None of us is perfect, of course, but it&#8217;s interesting to note mistakes of particular notoriety, such as the one Thomas Jefferson apparently made in the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence. He initially referred to &#8220;citizens&#8221; as &#8220;subjects.&#8221; While that might seem [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=languageandgrammar.com&blog=2288817&post=3472&subd=languageandgrammar&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Classic Example of Over-Inflated Language</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever and Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities. Over-inflated and convoluted language does not make a person sound more intelligent, but it does make a person seem as if: he&#8217;s trying too hard to sound smart how he sounds is more important than what he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=languageandgrammar.com&blog=2288817&post=3452&subd=languageandgrammar&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dear America&#8211;David Mitchell</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some reason, I feel that I should introduce this video of a funny British man giving a language rant with the line of &#8220;And now for something completely different.&#8221; Filed under: grammar, humor, language Tagged: david mitchell, grammar, language, language rant, writing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=languageandgrammar.com&blog=2288817&post=3442&subd=languageandgrammar&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since we changed the design of the site, I know that some of our other pages are not as obvious as they were in the past, but they&#8217;re still there, including: Sherry&#8217;s Grammar List, which includes a heavy dose of grammar-related entries. This is (by far and away) our most popular page on the site. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=languageandgrammar.com&blog=2288817&post=3436&subd=languageandgrammar&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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