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Descriptivism Versus Prescriptivism
By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever and Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities This sounds more like the wars the erupt between descriptivists and prescriptivists to me: 4 Copy Editors Killed In Ongoing AP Style, … Continue reading
This Vote Should Be Unanimous: It’s Electoral, not Electorial!
By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever and Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities We’re in the heart of election season, which means many things, one of the most annoying of which is how many people … Continue reading
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Tagged common mistakes, electoral, electoral college, electorial, language, spelling, spelling mistakes, writing
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I’ll be on Wisconsin Public Radio on Wednesday morning
By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever and Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities I’m happy to report that I’ll be on Wisconsin Public Radio from 9 a.m. until 10 a.m. (Eastern time) on Wednesday, joining … Continue reading
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Tagged grammar, language, wisconsin public radio, writing
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“Stretchered” Off the Ice?
By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever and Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities Although it’s often difficult to be (because of the unnecessary violence often intended to injure opponents), I’m a fan of hockey. The … Continue reading
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Tagged grammar, language, marian hossa, marian hossa injury, nouns used a verbs, raffi torres hit, writing
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Language of Racism: Hoodies the Reason for Trayvon Martin’s Death
By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever and Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities That’s right, ladies and gentleman, Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera thinks that what Trayvon Martin was wearing is as much of a factor … Continue reading
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Tagged George Zimmerman, Gerald Rivera, hoodies, language, racism, skittles, Trayvon Martin, Trayvon Martin death
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Proper Way To Apologize
We all make mistakes, but apologizing is always difficult. That difficulty (and because many people apologize when they’re not truly sorry for their actions) is why there are so many conditional apologies issued. That’s something I’ve talked about before here … Continue reading
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Tagged apology, language, lisa chan, pete hoekstra ad, politics, sincere apology
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Uni-Lingual Nation
By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever and Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities It’s estimated that more than half of the world speaks two languages, but in the U.S., it’s roughly 10%. I don’t have … Continue reading
Confusion Between Lead and Led
By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever and Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities Lead and led are two completely different words with completely different meanings, but since the past tense of the verb form of … Continue reading
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Tagged confused word pairs, grammar, language, lead/led, lead/led confusion, writing
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Today’s New “Word” Is Logomisia
By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever and Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities What if someone who doesn’t like the way in which we make up new words for no reason or change the meaning … Continue reading
How to Deal with Nasty People
By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever and Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities We have to deal with all kinds of people during our daily lives, so we need to know how to deal with … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, how to deal with nasty people, language
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