Are there any words that remind you so strongly of a particular context that you just simply can't bring yourself to use them seriously? Continue reading

Caring about grammar is cool!! Or anyway, if this thing keeps cycling the web, it will be soon. Continue reading

Was Paris or Nicole the first? It's snowballed since. People who — if all was right in the world — I shouldn't know the names of: Sarah Palin, Lauren Conrad, now Carrie Prejean. Why, why, when there are so many incredibly talented women writers in the world who eminently deserve multi-million dollar book-deals, are companies paying professionally stupid women obscene amounts of money to "write" books?… Continue reading

Vanity Fair sics an executive editor, a factchecker, and a copyeditor on Palin's resignation speech. The result is pure art. vanity fair | palin's resignation: the edited version

"I respect criticism, but I know more about film than most of the people writing about me. Not only that, I'm a better writer than most of the people writing about me. And I can write film criticism better than most of the people writing about me." _QT "But critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.“ _SK… Continue reading

This can't be copyediting because this isn't English. How do you generate a template for text that does not conform to any known linguistic patterns, a stylesheet for an anti-grammar? I'm taking a break from a massive freelance-consultant project to bemoan the fact that techies cannot write. This is a dangerous blanket assertion, and one that begs proving-wrong. Continue reading