Tag: education
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June 29, 2007 02:31 PM EDT --
The Interrobang WTF Is That
I was innocently eating watermelon while listening the NPR one afternoon earlier this month when Says You! informed me that there is a punctuation mark for grammatical situations . . .
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July 15, 2007 02:49 PM EDT --
One of the most useful mnemonic devices in my life is the "I Before E" rule. I often have trouble with transposed letters, and sometimes neither "ei" nor "ie" looks right . . .
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July 14, 2007 07:33 PM EDT --
Their, There, They're, Little Writer
They're over there with their homophones on, little writer, and they can't hear you pounding the keys over here. No, I know how frustrating it is to have . . .
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May 26, 2007 12:46 AM EDT --
I'm glad to see a growing acceptance of the use of the word "y'all", but I'd really like to see it spelled correctly if it's going to be used at all.
Y'all is a contraction . . .
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March 25, 2007 10:04 AM EDT --
"O" Is For Opossum
"O" is for Omnivore; possums eat almost everything you can stuff into a garbage can.
"P" is for Pink, the color of possum feet, noses, and tails. It's . . .
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May 31, 2007 02:55 AM EDT --
After posting the last article, I realized that "b'ars" is the correct contraction of "bears". Why anyone would bother contracting a five letter word is beyond me, but there it . . .
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February 28, 2007 07:39 AM EST --
Today while I was researching markets for scholarly type writing, I came across this statement as part of a foundation's requirements for submission to their journal:
"The article should be sent . . .
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March 09, 2007 01:43 PM EST --
A Limerick For Intelligent Debate
Some Neocons, when by facts are jarred,
Find intelligent retort rather hard.
When faced with a joke
About George and his coke,
They resort to just shouting "Libtard!" . . .
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