Author Topic: New column-type thingy (Read 112374 times)

Jonathon · « **Reply #250 on:** September 26, 2011, 09:12:34 AM »

Vote for Arrant Pedantry in Grammar.net's Best Grammar Blog of 2011 contest!

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #251 on:** September 26, 2011, 10:11:20 AM »

I did! You can return the favor by voting for my entry for Next Big Blog Post!

(Mind you, this is good-natured jocularity, not me attempting to apply actual pressure for you to reciprocate. Of course, I wouldn't expect that. Just so you don't get the wrong idea, or anything. I should stop talking now, right? Because the more I explain how I didn't do it, the guiltier I look. I do that all the time, protest my (actual) innocence so much that I convince people I did something wrong. It's OK to nest parentheses like that, right? I mean, it was OK in math class, and that was just down the hall from English class, so it probably applies to both. Gah! I really need to get some sleep. I'm on a jag.)

Jonathon · « **Reply #252 on:** September 26, 2011, 01:18:14 PM »

Thanks! Apparently Grammar.net is down right now, so I can only assume you guys are overloading their servers with votes.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #253 on:** September 26, 2011, 09:07:24 PM »

Yeah, like whenever The Cactus is down it's because we all are posting too fast and furious for the Internet to keep up. Yeah, that's the ticket.

Jonathon · « **Reply #254 on:** October 04, 2011, 11:12:54 AM »

I've chosen winners for my contest. Bob Scopatz got second prize.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #255 on:** October 04, 2011, 11:18:31 AM »

Mazel tov to the winners!

BlackBlade · « **Reply #256 on:** October 04, 2011, 12:17:39 PM »

*goes off to cancel paypal payment*. I am very disappointed Jonathon.

Jonathon · « **Reply #257 on:** October 04, 2011, 12:23:06 PM »

Maybe if you'd sent the payment a little earlier . . .

BlackBlade · « **Reply #258 on:** October 04, 2011, 12:50:46 PM »

Quote from: Jonathon on October 04, 2011, 12:23:06 PM

Maybe if you'd sent the payment a little earlier . . .

Maybe if you have mentioned it was *really* going to be a Kindle Fire . . .

Jonathon · « **Reply #259 on:** October 04, 2011, 12:51:53 PM »

I didn't even know there was such a thing until a few days ago.

BlackBlade · « **Reply #260 on:** October 04, 2011, 12:57:12 PM »

Well then it's a good thing you are running a linguistics blog, not a clairvoyance one. Too bad though, the latter is infinitely more useful!

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #261 on:** October 04, 2011, 02:17:57 PM »

Quote from: BlackBlade on October 04, 2011, 12:50:46 PM

Quote from: Jonathon on October 04, 2011, 12:23:06 PM
Maybe if you'd sent the payment a little earlier . . .
Maybe if you have mentioned it was *really* going to be a Kindle Fire . . .

Fire schmire, I know a guy makes his own char cloth.

Jonathon · « **Reply #262 on:** October 06, 2011, 08:29:22 PM »

Continua, Planes, and False Dichotomies

rivka · « **Reply #263 on:** October 06, 2011, 08:57:36 PM »

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who “lives” in the bottom-left quadrant?

The ghost of Robert Lowth.

Jonathon · « **Reply #264 on:** October 06, 2011, 09:02:58 PM »

Dobie · « **Reply #265 on:** October 07, 2011, 01:26:11 PM »

"as many facts and as much evidence" not "as much facts and evidence"

Jonathon · « **Reply #266 on:** October 17, 2011, 02:27:35 PM »

They and the Gender-Neutral Pronoun Dilemma, based on Bob's second-place topic suggestion.

Jonathon · « **Reply #267 on:** October 19, 2011, 03:57:51 PM »

Rules, Regularity, and Relative Pronouns

rivka · « **Reply #268 on:** October 19, 2011, 04:31:22 PM »

Interesting.

Jonathon · « **Reply #269 on:** October 28, 2011, 12:20:18 PM »

My post on singular they was mentioned on Copyediting.com.

BlackBlade · « **Reply #270 on:** October 28, 2011, 01:05:07 PM »

Ah, yeah! Jonathon Owen, totally in position to fill the void Noam Chomsky will leave when he finally dies.

Jonathon · « **Reply #271 on:** October 28, 2011, 02:37:07 PM »

Thanks, but I must disagree. Completely different subfields.

BlackBlade · « **Reply #272 on:** October 28, 2011, 02:42:08 PM »

Quote from: Jonathon on October 28, 2011, 02:37:07 PM

Thanks, but I must disagree. Completely different subfields.

We aren't talking about subfields, we're talking about dominating the entire field of linguistics. You are language!

Marianne Dashwood · « **Reply #273 on:** October 28, 2011, 03:49:51 PM »

Nobody's going to fill Chomsky's void. We're just going to fill it up with dirt and pass on pretending nothing happened.

Jonathon · « **Reply #274 on:** October 28, 2011, 08:52:39 PM »

I think I've become popular enough for random people to hate me. Some guy on Twitter asked me, "If your deal is prescriptiveness, isn't your user name a self-undermining misnomer? Or do you just hate AP style?"