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Some critics are lacking compunction
They come at you wielding a truncheon
Not to take you to task
But I just had to ask
Just what in the heck is an "untion"?

Read all… Subjects: added on 2018 Sep 12
Subjects: language

"Daily Wire editor-in-chief and podcast sensation, Ben Shapiro"

Read all… Subjects: added on 2018 Jun 19
Subjects: language

BoB: English majors take so much flak from people who major in practical subjects...

Read all… Subjects: added on 2018 Mar 3
Subjects: language

I before E…

This is THE GREATEST EXCEPTIONS list I have ever seen.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2018 Mar 2
Subjects: language

Word of the Day:

Read all… Subjects: added on 2018 Feb 25
Subjects: language

Tuesday Prude: …Will you lose all respect for me if I confess I hadn’t heard of a chiasmus?…

I must admit, it was new to me, too. Yet obvious by context.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2018 Feb 20
Subjects: language

It's taken me days to get to a reply on this, but I've thought of it every day since you posted it.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2018 Feb 15
Subjects: language, parenting

Trudeau Corrects Woman: Say ‘Peoplekind’ Instead of ‘Mankind’ It’s ‘More Inclusive’

Manterrupts woman to mansplain femspeak. Eau du irony!

Read all… Subjects: added on 2018 Feb 6
Subjects: women's liberation, language

Milady Webworker notes that one could substitute the Shatner comma for the Walken comma without change.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2018 Jan 25
Subjects: language, humor

Rather than start with reading the news (real and #fake) as usual, I started my online day here with Bluebird. As befits the first warm morning in several days.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2018 Jan 18
Subjects: language, humor
Roundabout sign
Short & Tall Tales

One random thought intersecting another.

Text added on 2018 Jan 9
Subjects: language, Progressives Playbook, humor
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There's some gems here.

The kiss goodnight apparently involved some serious contortions. Whoo!

Read all… Subjects: added on 2017 Dec 21
Subjects: language, fail

Donald Trump calls Chelsea Manning ‘he’

Read all… Subjects: added on 2017 Aug 29
Subjects: language

"Remember... when your GPS & fish locator we're rolled in to one trusty unit called Grandpa?"

Remember when "were" (past tense of is/are) didn't have an apostrophe?

Read all… Subjects: added on 2017 Apr 28
Subjects: fish, language

What I've retained from reading the morning threads:

the Bible teaches us to confess our sins to one another and then son no more.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2017 Apr 1
Subjects: humor, language, online communication

#willowedWit

Should Lorne Grabher win his case to renew the personalized last-name license plate he's had for decades...

Read all… Subjects: added on 2017 Mar 27
Subjects: Donald Trump, language

Alberta Oil Peon: ...There is a weak rhyme between the two words in each line, and a stronger rhyme between corresponding words in the two lines.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2017 Mar 27
Subjects: language

Vocab Upgrade! The Horde be so schmardt!

Callipygic (Kodos #77)

Read all… Subjects: added on 2017 Mar 13
Subjects: language

Misanthropic Humanitarian: I will make sure your refund is sent directly

Maybe it will cover the stomach churning meds you need

Read all… Subjects: added on 2017 Feb 3
Subjects: computers, language

The ONT is not trying to discuss politics per say.

TEETH GRINDING
EYE SQUINTING
SHOULDER FLINCHING
STOMACH CHURNING

Latin: learn it or don't

Read all… Subjects: added on 2017 Feb 2
Subjects: language

Every once in a while, I encounter words that I have to stop and think, do I really know what that means? Of course, it just takes a few clicks to look up a word now That's cool.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2017 Jan 2
Subjects: language

"They work tongue-in-cheek together"?? Heh. Probably not the first commenter to note that this is the wrong use of the phrase, but I kinda like it.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Dec 19
Subjects: language, blogs

Puddleglum: ...Politics is there religion.

* sound of fingernails on blackboard *

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Dec 19
Subjects: language

1,500 ISIS Jihadists have quite Middle East to attack Europe.

You misspeellled "quiet." Um... wait... hmmmmm

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Dec 9
Subjects: language

Cato: ..know-nothing drivel-spigot...

* jots phrase down for future re-use *

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Dec 5
Subjects: humor, language

Getting caught up, again, on a few days' posts. I know the day, as a whole, is still the same 24hrs, but why does it seem like they're getting shorter for real?

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Dec 3
Subjects: language, computers, comics

Hookay, I have read the comments up to my own (#259) so before I refresh and find 259 more....

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Nov 21
Subjects: beverage, language, Oklahoma

Apropos of nothing in particular, fave headline of the week:

Big Helicopter To Replace AC Unit On Tulsa Office Building

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Nov 6
Subjects: helicopter, language

Galveston Jim, I tried the other night but don't know if you saw - thanks for the article to which you sent me a link.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Sep 21
Subjects: language

I was just thinking, earlier today, not for the firs time, that there are some songs which could be said to have stood up pretty well, except they employed the anachronism "groovy."

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Sep 20
Subjects: anachronism, language, Paul Simon

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