Category Archives: writing

Googled It on Youtube

Posted on June 22, 2009 by languageandgrammar

That’s right, ladies and gentlemen. I actually heard someone say “I googled it on Youtube.” Google, of course, is a search engine, not a verb. If it were a verb, it would most likely mean to search for something on … Continue reading →

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Tornadoes Versus Reports of Tornadoes

Posted on June 20, 2009 by languageandgrammar

While you’ll most likely hear both the number of tornadoes and the number of reports of tornadoes in the media this weekend, these terms are not synonymous. Rather than go into that explanation here, I’ll refer you to the literally, … Continue reading →

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Post-Consumer Material

Posted on June 7, 2009 by languageandgrammar

We’ve all read something that was so full of convoluted words and confusing sentence structures that we knew it had to be written by someone very smart; it was clearly over our heads. What was REALLY happening is that we … Continue reading →

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You Said It…

Posted on June 1, 2009 by languageandgrammar

I’m sure that our regular readers have noticed that we’ve occasionally taken to making posts out of your pet peeves, so that’s what we’ll do again today. We agree with most of them. We’ve written about some of them (links … Continue reading →

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Mantuary

Posted on May 20, 2009 by languageandgrammar

The good news is that I might have been too harsh on one of the terms that I’ve made reference to in the past–man cave. Sure, it’s annoying, trendy, and sexist with a seventh-grade maturity level, but at least it’s … Continue reading →

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Larry King on Language

Posted on May 17, 2009 by languageandgrammar

When I was doing a recent google search for trendy language (is that really that much more difficult than saying when I recently googled trendy language?), I came across some Larry King commentary on the topic. His comments, found at … Continue reading →

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Your Language Complaints

Posted on May 6, 2009 by languageandgrammar

That’s right, ladies and gentlemen, this is the fourth installment of what you, the readers languageandgrammar.com, have listed as Your Pet Peeves. Since we’ve had well over 100 comments, with probably close to 200 peeves, we thought that it only … Continue reading →

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Close But No Cigarette

Posted on April 30, 2009 by languageandgrammar

We’ve all done it–either misstated something or slightly mangled a common statement or cliche, and the result was a humorous sentence that didn’t make sense. I call this “close but no cigarette.” One of our blogger friends, Pamela Villars, recently … Continue reading →

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Don’t Torture Me: Tortuous, Torturous

Posted on April 29, 2009 by languageandgrammar

Sometimes, learning grammar rules can be torturous. Or is it tortuous? Be careful with these two words; the second -r makes all the difference. Torturous has torture as its root, and it means that something is very painful, that is, … Continue reading →

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Going Nucular

Posted on April 27, 2009 by languageandgrammar

Richard Nixon once said, “…when the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.” Well, that might be true of wire-tapping without court-approved warrants, but I’m almost certain that it does not hold true for grammar, punctuation, and … Continue reading →

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