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Long before I began this blog, and with much more insight and force, George Orwell traced the collapse of English usage to politics and economics.
Rather than try to summarize or restate his conclusions, I’ll just post a link to “Politics and the English Language,” written in 1946.
0 Comments I found this site yesterday that mails out grammar lessons Monday through Friday and then a quiz on the topics covered on Saturday. This is a nice way to tune up your [tag]English grammar understanding[/tag] and usage. The lessons come via e-mail, and I received my first one today, which covered the very simplest basics of pronouns.
If this sounds interesting to you, it’s free and can be signed up for at Daily Grammar.
I’d love to run something similar, but I’m a one-person operation. Maybe when I’m fully retired, I’ll offer my own version of this. Meanwhile, enjoy!
You hear a lot of people say, “I googled it,” when referring to the process of finding something via Web search on [tag]Google[/tag]. This certainly works in the vernacular, but come on, google as a verb in a Notword of the first magnitude. (That being said, I wouldn’t be surprised to find it in the dictionaries soon, if not already.)
The first equivalent usage to google as a verb that comes to mind is “to bork,” as in raking someone over the personal integrity coals as the Democrats did to Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork.
What’s next, to iraq? “We iraqqed that country,” meaning to invade and take over another nation and then get caught in a quagmire.
English Resources is a new feature that you can access through the navigation bar on the left. There you’ll find articles on [tag]English writing, grammar, essay composition[/tag] and the like as I write, find and accumulate them. Enjoy and check back frequently.
I’ve added a new page where you can submit [tag]English grammar questions[/tag] to be answered.
Just go to the Ask Grammar Questions page on the top navbar, or simply click on the title here.
General turnaround time should be 24 hours or less, but I am a human being who has a life outside of Notwords and English grammar, so if there’s a bit of a slowdown, just forward oodles of dough and your answer will come forthwith!
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