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It’s never too late for Haiku Tuesday! Mistakes
Since I have writer’s
block: If you fix your mistakes,
Yay! You are fluent.
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Just couldn’t think of anything witty to write today, but the main point of today’s haiku is that like most skills, there’s no one way to get good, and often you only have limited control over your exposure to situations that will enable you [...]
Word Usage Special: Marketing-speak
Something that happened to me has incited me to write an impromptu post (yes, before the other promptu posts) on marketing-speak.
Today, I went shopping to fill up my cubicle at work with some snacks…you know, candy, chips, crackers, the works. This is an effort to save money and not buy them from the vending machine. [...]
Also posted in Features, Fun With Words, Language Tagged advertising, jargon, Language, marketing speak, opinion Leave a comment
to whatever (vt, vi.)
Hey,
Some midnight inspiration for you.
I love the flexibility of the English language; tonight I used the verb to whatever with my wife. It’s a verb that be can transitive, intransitive, or whatever you need it to be. It is defined as “to perform the action that is obvious from the context of the request” or [...]
Also posted in Fun With Words, Language Tagged coinage, english language, Language, verbs, whatever 2 Comments
Blog English
You may wonder why, if this is supposedly a language blog, the English is not perfect and formal.
To that, I have but one response…it’s a blog!
So I’m writing in Standard Blog English. Yep.
Posted in Linguistic Opinions Tagged blog, english language, grammar, punctuation, style, writing Leave a comment
Language Learning Inspiration – Become UNABLE to not understand!