Your attention please. Verbing nouns and nouning verbs is common practice, but this should be extended. Your task for this week, class, is to verb a different adjective every day.
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I know it’s called “the future tense” but I wish the tense part could be a bit less overbearing…
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The term “bakari” can be used in several different ways to emphasize and define the limit of a range. Check out your options in this week's Bilingual piece. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/04/11/language/osaka-expo-grammar-bakari/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #language #nihongo #voacbulary #grammar #jlptn1 #jlptn2 #jlptn3 #2025osakaexpo
The Japan Times · I’ve only just come back from Osaka, but I’m ready to hit the Expo
In a surprisingly insightful summary of a "DX Leadership Panel", I saw this nugget:
> People see that the survey matters and gets actioned on.
"gets actioned on" is some pretty nauseating corporate grammar. Where do people come up with this shit?
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People often point out various grammatical errors in texts people write. As if having better attention to words makes the argument presented more or less valid. So I suppose I'm gonna rant about this.
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/stupid_correct_english
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Random English language advice:
The phrase "My laptop was stolen a few weeks ago." and the phrase "I had my laptop stolen a few weeks ago." do not mean the same thing.
The second version implies that you were somehow involved in causing the act to occur, which is probably not what you intended to say.
Summary: Don't use "I had" (or variations of it) as a substitute for "was".
I'll go ahead and say it. Predictive typing is as advanced as just throwing spaghetti at a wall and seeing what sticks.
The typo in "hour” is mine. The suggestion to complete the sentence with "horseshoe” is Microsoft Outlook’s.
Even worse, I have "Check spelling as you type” and “Check grammar as you type" both turned on.
Another gem by wordsmith Elle Cordova!
“I’m essential”
“You’re vestigial”
#Punctuation marks hanging out!
c: @ElleCordova on IG
#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2504.04 — What are some tips and tricks you use to convey strong emotions?
I think this is where my use of Grammar B helps me. Strong emotions, even things like anger, I think are associated with confusion and levels of self-doubt, which leads to cycles of justification or re-evaluation on the fly, quickly, immediately, erratically. or it just might conceivably—or very possibly since MURPHY in all things, right?—get worse, far worse; that type of thing.
The last sentence is a short example of a Grammar B run-on. It is non-grammatical; your high school English teacher would grade it a Fail. What it does is breathlessly fire off thought after thought in a continuing sequence, no sequence dependent on the sequence before. It flows. Like a speech. The reader never needs to backtrack to deduce meaning. Such a construct could be cut into individual sentences, standardized. But. Why? Rhythm of any sort drives the reader forward. It creates tension. All useful when writing emotion. A flood of description to overwhelm the senses, like the emotion itself.
Another construction I think works, usually mixed carefully with the run-on to break repeating rhythms, is telegraphy. I used that in the previous paragraph. Did you. Notice? Short, non-grammatical sentences. Missing a verb, a noun, or what not. It works like a drumbeat, focusing the reader on individual word or unsupported phrase meanings—and you get extra credit if you use a word with multiple meanings that could conceivably apply in context; emotion is confusion, innit?
In a sense, Grammar B is like finding poetry in prose. Used right, it uniquely depicts emotion. This is why I call myself a "prosaist."
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Our writer long avoided exclamation points. Then, the pandemic hit and the lively punctuation became a signal flare in a cold, gray sea. Now he loves their zing! Their fizz! Their pop! #punctuation #grammar
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The Christian Science Monitor · You punctuation party animal, you! How I learned to love the exclamation mark.
How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/em-dash-en-dash-how-to-use
www.merriam-webster.comHow to Use Em Dashes (—), En Dashes (–) , and Hyphens (-)Be dashing—and do it well
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People often point out various grammatical errors in texts people write. As if having better attention to words makes the argument presented more or less valid. So I suppose I'm gonna rant about this.
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/stupid_correct_english
blenderdumbass . orgStupid Correct English
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In 1803, Johan Werfel published a grammar of Danish that was supposedly "for women". It was also both "practical and theoretical".
I digitized the book for the @internetarchive and wrote something about the book for #Lingoblog [In Danish]. I'll try to summarize the most interesting points here! I was curious about what it meant that it was "for women" (besides a general interest in reading old grammar books) 
https://www.lingoblog.dk/en-sexistisk-grammatik-dansk-grammatik-for-kvinder-anno-1803/
#linguistics #grammar #sexism #women
Lingoblog · En sexistisk grammatik? Dansk grammatik "for kvinder" anno 1803 | LingoblogI 1803 blev bogen Theoretisk og practisk Dansk Grammatik for Fruentimmer udgivet, skrevet af Johan Werfel. Jeg er usikker på hvordan jeg er endt med at have
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People often point out various grammatical errors in texts people write. As if having better attention to words makes the argument presented more or less valid. So I suppose I'm gonna rant about this.
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/stupid_correct_english
blenderdumbass . orgStupid Correct English
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Michael Porter Just heard a "grammar expert" interviewed on CBC suggest that "fewer than 53 pounds" was preferred, because 53 is countable.
Noooo...
Weight is a measurement, with uncertainty, that is not restricted to natural numbers. That pig might be 53.13±0.05 pounds. "Less than" should be the correct usage.
Tagging @grammargirl! What do you think? Do some measurements fall into a grey area because we often express them in nice, round umbers (like our weight)?
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People often point out various grammatical errors in texts people write. As if having better attention to words makes the argument presented more or less valid. So I suppose I'm gonna rant about this.
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/stupid_correct_english
Before sending an email or posting a GitHub issue comment, I often go back and change statements like "will" to less definitive statements like "should". Is this a good thing, because I am acknowledging that I am not omniscient? Or am I just using weasel words to absolve myself of responsibility?
TIL “used to” and “use to” serve different grammatical purposes. I always used to think “use to” was wrong because I thought it was supposed to be past tense, but that’s not the case. https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/is-it-used-to-or-use-to
www.merriam-webster.comIs it 'used to' or 'use to'?You'll get used to it