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English & Linguistics / Re: I hate journalistic writing
« on: August 07, 2016, 05:43:48 AM »
"Queues, Security Scares Mark Shambolic First Day in Rio."



Mark Shambolic is apparently from a country that doesn't have security checkpoints and such.  I hope he got over his fear and was able to compete in whatever event he's famous for.

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English & Linguistics / Re: The random etymology of the day
« on: April 13, 2016, 07:51:18 AM »
Pretty much like the orange ones.

Also, the varieties we grew were only purple on the outside.  When you peeled them they were orange.  It was very disappointing. Same with red.  The yellow ones were yellow all the way through.

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English & Linguistics / Re: I hate journalistic writing
« on: March 22, 2016, 09:10:55 AM »
Ah.

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English & Linguistics / Re: I hate journalistic writing
« on: March 21, 2016, 04:47:32 PM »
Quote from: Jonathon on March 18, 2016, 09:00:27 AM
Quote from: dkw on March 18, 2016, 06:22:24 AM
The worst are the ones where the author pretends there's a book by the same title and most of the actual book is "reporting" all the wonderful things that happened to people who read the book.

That sounds awful. I don't think I've read one like that.

Isn't the cheese one like that?  Or maybe I'm conflating it with another one.

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English & Linguistics / Re: I hate journalistic writing
« on: March 18, 2016, 06:22:24 AM »
I had to read a few of those for boards I was on.

The worst are the ones where the author pretends there's a book by the same title and most of the actual book is "reporting" all the wonderful things that happened to people who read the book.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Language Acquisition
« on: January 10, 2016, 05:46:42 AM »
Woohoo! Go Cedar!

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English & Linguistics / Re: Quotes from work
« on: October 29, 2015, 06:10:30 AM »
BLS?

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English & Linguistics / Re: Quotes from work
« on: October 27, 2015, 12:16:18 PM »
Quote from: Jonathon on October 27, 2015, 10:55:32 AM
Editing catch of the day: "differenchiate".

My brain keeps trying to process that as an actual word (other than the one it's supposed to be, I mean) but I can't decide what the definition would be.

Something to do with dentistry, maybe.

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English & Linguistics / Re: You keep on using that word
« on: September 23, 2015, 06:11:41 AM »
Perhaps they meant they only remove honest stumps.  If you've got a cheatin' lyin' stump you need to call someone else.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Dear Expert
« on: September 17, 2015, 04:33:11 AM »
Quote from: Jonathon on September 16, 2015, 01:53:06 PM
Yeah, even if it's a real word, "presider" is weird. I don't think I've ever seen it before either.

 Huh. It's a perfectly normal word to me.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« on: July 12, 2015, 12:09:06 PM »
In church today the pastor perpetuated the "____ is a verb" nonsense.  She was quoting a book titled God Is a Verb and said something like "God is not static, but always in motion, and grammatically motion is a verb."  I was internally rolling my eyes, when Charles looked over at me and whispered, "Mom, that book is wrong."

I guess the book author missed first grade grammar.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Quotes from work
« on: July 10, 2015, 06:26:30 PM »
Is the sentence about soccer?

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English & Linguistics / Re: Quotes from work
« on: July 05, 2015, 03:56:40 PM »
Somebody put the actual paragraph in a blender and that was the result.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Dear Expert
« on: June 23, 2015, 07:04:50 PM »
About above across after against among around at
Before behind beside between by down during except for
From in near of off on over through to toward under up with
Aboard along below beneath besides beyond concerning!

Some things you never forget.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Dear Expert
« on: June 23, 2015, 06:59:27 PM »
37 of them.  Out didn't make the cut.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Dear Expert
« on: May 29, 2015, 07:27:56 PM »
Somehow I don't think so.


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English & Linguistics / Re: Dear Expert
« on: May 28, 2015, 12:15:47 PM »
The letter isn't by the author of the book.  It's an "open letter" that was originally published in a newspaper being used as an example by the author of the book. This is what I have now:

Ted Lyddon Hatten, “An Open Letter to an Arsonist.” Reprinted in Becoming Jesus Prayer: Transforming Your Life Through the Lord’s Prayer, Gregory Palmer, Cindy McCalmont, & Brian Milford (Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 2005), 77-78.

Hatten, Ted Lyddon. “An Open Letter to an Arsonist.” Reprinted in Becoming Jesus Prayer: Transforming Your Life Through the Lord’s Prayer. By Gregory Palmer, Cindy McCalmont, and Brian Milford, 75-78. Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 2005.


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English & Linguistics / Re: Dear Expert
« on: May 28, 2015, 04:20:14 AM »
Dear Expert,

When citing a letter that's reprinted entirely in a book, but the book is otherwise by a single author rather than an edited collection, how should I list the author of the book?  Do I just put "By ___" where I would put "Edited by ____" if it were a chapter from an edited work?

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English & Linguistics / Re: Quotes from work
« on: May 15, 2015, 11:10:21 AM »
Quote from: Jonathon on May 15, 2015, 07:49:15 AM
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She met her husband of almost twenty-five years at BYU and has lived in Orem ever since.

So, out of curiosity, does anyone else think this is ambiguous?

Not in the slightest.

I suspect your student editor has never encountered the construction "husband of ___ years" and had to stop and think about it so it seems ambiguous to them.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« on: May 15, 2015, 05:44:25 AM »
That's not a feeling, that's reading comprehension.  Doesn't she say it flat out?  Or is that only in Fountainhead?

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English & Linguistics / Re: New column-type thingy
« on: April 27, 2015, 04:17:51 PM »
Nice.

I think you're missing a word, though:  "one commenter named Kevin S. has made similar arguments Kory Stamper’s blog, Harmless Drudgery."

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English & Linguistics / Re: Dear Expert
« on: March 23, 2015, 05:03:47 AM »
No, that was a stray thought in response to pooka's post.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Quotes from work
« on: March 18, 2015, 11:19:12 AM »
It's not uncommon. 

His spin-offs are Thomistic theology and Thomists, not Aquinian theology and Aquinists.

Depending on audience I would probably use full name for first reference and Aquinas afterward in a formal paper, though.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Dear Expert
« on: March 05, 2015, 10:40:27 AM »
I'm thinking of an educational video game for teaching grammar and/or punctuation. When you rewrite the incorrect sentence the monster turns aside and doesn't eat you.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Dear Expert
« on: March 04, 2015, 01:30:59 PM »
Thanks.


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