樂趣， Funner， Funnest
我增長相信(我甚而可能被教了此)樂趣， funner和funnest是適當的正面，比較和最好形式 樂趣.
另一方面，但我做了一些研究并且發現一些有趣的辯論繼續：
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0評論 Colin Cowherd機智和智慧
我不想要給印象我堅定是反對所有英國俗話，白話或俏皮話。 我是主要反對口語惡習例如 令人敬畏現在是很陳舊的pukifying (導致一對puke，我組成)的詞。
炫耀Jock無線電主人[標記] Cowherd的Colin [/tag]今天實際上有兩三好部分。
哪些是….
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我太多聽見了`令人敬畏』
我帶來了此前面，但使用詞做 令人敬畏 真正地有所有意思？
在起點，上帝看見它是偉大和令人愉快和叫它 bitchin‘.
以後，這被變體了入 時髦， phat，病殘，壞， 等.
我們會再溝通，不用是 時髦 并且，哀傷說，傻和無知？
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沈默不金黃這次
印第安出生作者[標記] Salman Rushdie [/tag]由英國女王最近授以爵位，他長期居住并且工作。 它那裡差不多20年前他出版的那 魔鬼詩歌立刻被譴責作為褻瀆由許多在回教世界。 回教什葉派領袖霍梅尼甚而發布了a fatwa 死亡反對他那平靜站立。
由於他的騎士精神，呼叫請求Rushdie的謀殺在回教世界再共鳴。 伊朗小組為他的兇手甚而提供了$150,000作為獎勵。
事是，沒人在西部媒介真正地衝對本作者的防禦，作為[標記] Tim Rutten [/tag]筆記并且詆譭 他的文章 在今天 洛杉磯時報.
我高度建議大家讀了他的文章。
This is no time for silence, which Rutten accurately describes as "a silence in which the only permissible sounds are the prayers of the killers and the cries of their victims."
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Does Literacy Matter?
I spend a lot of my time dealing with Internet issues. For the past few years, all the buzz has been about the social networking sites like My Space and the social bookmarking sites like Digg, which are part of what’s called [tag]Web 2.0[/tag]. But have you ever read the stuff that’s being posted on these sites?
Misspellings, misuses, fragments, run-ons, jargon and slang–you name it. A lot of the stuff resembles what an illiterate Madison Avenue might produce. In fact, that might be the exact result we’re seeing on these sites–an attempt to employ Madison Avenue marketing, promotion and advertising techniques for personal gain, but without any effort at literacy.
So this reality begs the question: Does literacy matter anymore?
Maybe it doesn’t matter in a pop culture sense, but in a survival-of-the-culture sense, literacy certainly does matter. It’s like those barbarians who overran the latter-day Roman Empire. They weren’t any less cultured than many of the Roman citizens they overran.
They just had more to gain. Ooh, scary thought.
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A New Theme
On certain computer monitors my previous theme, named Magellan, looked fine, but on others it was just too hard to read. So, after considerable research, I’ve switched over to this new, more open and "whiter" theme named Rockin’ Big Idea.
I hope you enjoy it. Now if I can just figure out how to get my RSS feed working again. Anybody got any solutions?
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Beyond NotWords: Since v. Sense
I’m not sure if this word usage qualifies as a NotWord, but it certainly qualifies as incorrect. As a university instructor, both on-ground and online, I read a lot of papers. One great mistake I see a lot and which surprises me is the use of since when the author means sense.
Someone will write, for instance, that "his since of timing was off." Clearly, the word here has to be sense. The spell checkers of the world will normally not catch a misused word that is spelled correctly, so even if these students are relying on built-in word processing features, their misused words can easily slip through.
I’m not sure how students make this mistake since the words since and sense sound quite different when pronounced. I can understand typing out one word for another when they sound exactly the same, such as there and they’re, but to use since repeatedly instead of sense tells me something.
And what I think it tells me is that these people didn’t have enough "drill-and-kill" spelling exercises when they were in school, or if they did, they didn’t pay close enough attention to them.
Since this is Monday, that’s my sense of frustration for the week.
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Parts of Speech: A Primer
I’m no longer surprised when native English speakers (Americans) cannot define or locate in a sentence any of the eight parts of speech used in English. It just reflects the sorry state of education in the U.S.
The educational establishment starting in the 1960s or so developed this "drill and kill" mentality that rejected the teaching of anything that needs to be memorized and repeated–and then put into action with worksheets and quizzes. Supposedly, if you "drill," you "kill" the students’ precious little creative minds. Unfortunately, you also end up not teaching them anything.
Anyway, enough on that, here are the eight parts of speech: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions and interjections.
I found a neat site for you to "drill and kill" yourself learning these. No, really, it teaches and then quizzes you: ESLUS.com .
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NotWords: ‘I Graduated’
Now, you hear this all the time: "I graduated high school in 1982."
No matter what year you use in there, the construction is still incorrect. The active verb form of graduate refers to what the school or institution does: It graduates students. Thus you are graduated or were graduated from high school, college, prison ([tag]Paris Hilton[/tag]?) or wherever.
However, this sloppy and misunderstood use of English, "I graduated," has been tacitly recognized as "informal" by dictionary folk, proving once again that, if people use it, the dictionaries will honor it.
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When Is Silence Golden?
This may be a bit off track for my audience, especially for those outside the United States, but I have simple advice for Yankees baseballer [tag]Jason Giambi[/tag]: "Shut up!"
I appreciate what Giambi has said publicly so far–especially the part that everyone in baseball should apologize for the sham of the steroid era when unbreakable records were routinely broken–but now that he’s being confronted with an ultimatum by [tag]MLB COmmissioner Bud Selig[/tag] to ‘fess up to investigator [tag]George Mitchell[/tag] or face a suspension, the time to zip the lips is here.
Selig is out of his mind. Giambi has already spoken. Baseball (Selig) doesn’t need to make a sacrificial lamb out of him. Selig is the very one who stood by actionless with full knowledge of the steroid abuse by players who were then shattering records and did nothing, absolutely nothing, but revel in the increased crowds and TV rankings.
Silence will be golden for Jason Giambi. Departure would be noble for Selig.
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