Author Topic: Funny English and Linguistics stuff... (Read 217077 times)

Nighthawk · « **Reply #1000 on:** December 26, 2014, 11:02:34 AM »

Spoiler: *blink!* (click to show/hide)

Well at least they got "Manual" right...

Sputnik · « **Reply #1001 on:** January 06, 2015, 07:49:13 PM »

They need a grammatical instruction manual. Oh wait, that's the dictionary.

dkw · « **Reply #1002 on:** January 08, 2015, 08:33:09 AM »

That would be a spelling instruction manual, not grammar, but yeah.

Porter · « **Reply #1003 on:** January 11, 2015, 07:27:12 PM »

It's also a usage/definition instruction manual.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1004 on:** February 06, 2015, 07:48:25 AM »

rivka · « **Reply #1005 on:** February 06, 2015, 08:23:22 AM »

Porter · « **Reply #1006 on:** February 06, 2015, 04:14:11 PM »

pooka · « **Reply #1007 on:** March 05, 2015, 04:30:30 AM »

I saved a grammar nazi logo from facebook to my tablet but i dont know where my tablet keeps stuff.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1008 on:** March 09, 2015, 07:54:46 AM »

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #1009 on:** March 09, 2015, 08:16:46 AM »

In our house, when you say "I beg your pardon", you are expected to get on your knees and clasp your hands beseechingly.

Ela · « **Reply #1010 on:** March 09, 2015, 05:01:59 PM »

My daughter the (former) English major is a big proponent of the Oxford comma.

Nighthawk · « **Reply #1011 on:** April 23, 2015, 07:53:52 PM »

Jonathon · « **Reply #1012 on:** April 23, 2015, 09:24:06 PM »

I guess that's one way to write it. Not a way that anyone has ever chosen before, probably, but I guess they get points for creativity.

pooka · « **Reply #1013 on:** April 24, 2015, 06:00:26 AM »

I read a chapter from an Oxford University Press book this week. It had Oxford commas.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #1014 on:** April 24, 2015, 09:09:39 AM »

It had better!

Nighthawk · « **Reply #1015 on:** May 01, 2015, 08:21:13 AM »

Long live the Oxford comma!

rivka · « **Reply #1016 on:** May 01, 2015, 09:08:29 AM »

Keith · « **Reply #1017 on:** May 01, 2015, 11:01:30 AM »

I just spent a few minutes trying to imagine the New Testament from an Objectivist perspective, but my head exploded.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1018 on:** May 01, 2015, 11:25:19 AM »

And yet a lot of Christians seem to like Rand. I don't get it.

Annie Subjunctive · « **Reply #1019 on:** May 14, 2015, 09:12:13 PM »

I had a very conservative Mormon facebook friend explode in outrage and then defriend me when I told her I feel that Atlas Shrugged celebrates selfishness.

dkw · « **Reply #1020 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?

Jonathon · « **Reply #1021 on:** May 15, 2015, 07:48:18 AM »

I haven't actually read anything by her, but everything I've read about her suggests that that was her philosphy in a nutshell and that she didn't exactly hide it.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #1022 on:** May 15, 2015, 07:51:36 AM »

She wrote a book entitled "The Virtue of Selfishness". Ayn Rand wasn't being coy about it or anything.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1023 on:** May 28, 2015, 09:25:44 PM »

rivka · « **Reply #1024 on:** June 08, 2015, 11:29:46 AM »

Not sure if this is more funny ha-ha or funny :facepalm:

http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2015/06/03/how-ridic-are-the-new-scrabble-words