That's so typical. You won't steal a baby, but you're too lazy to conjugate.
Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.
What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles...
Youir're doing this wrong.
Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few words as possible. Use action verbs to carry water.
It's good netiquette to judge others by the the intent of their words not content of characters. NetworkEtiquette.net
People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully about anything else.
What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist?
Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.
Stupid English.""English isn't stupid," I say."Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about our favorite subject, and I wanted to write about lunch, but he won'...
Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, I'll be dead, you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's h...
