محفوظ لأغسطس - آب, 2008
بما أنّ أنا أعدّ ل ي قادمة طريق 66 تطهير, أو سفر أن يكتشف جذوري (شيء سوفت أنا' [ف] يتمّ 40 سنون [أغو], لا الآن), أنا يتلقّى يكون أقرأ [ألّ ث] "طريق" كتب أنا يستطيع وجدت, يتضمّن على الطريق ب [جك] [كرووك].
[هيستور-يس] واحدة من السخرية عظيمة أمريكية [ليترتثر-ند] أنّ [كرووك] اعتبرت كالسلف من [بتنيكس], أيّ يكون حوالي بما أنّ [فر فروم] الحقيقة بما أنّ يمكن.
[كرووك] كان كاثوليكية الذي بلّل في بوذية وطوال هو كلّ كان وليام [ف.]. [بوكلي] نوع من متحفّظ سياسيّة. هو ارتدى ما من لحية وما من جان غير أنّ دخّن شاي, بما أنّ هو دعا [مريجون-ند] [أف كورس], شرب كثيرا.
عندما أحال هو ال [بت جنرأيشن], هو وصف ساكناته بما أنّ يكون "نبض فوق ونبض إلى أسفل" - في أخرى كلمات, جيل أنّ تلقّى يكون دفعت دون و [أسوندر] ويعالج ضرب قاسية, [سسلّي], نفسيّا وماليّا. هو حتّى عادل يكون "نبض" مع "[بتيفيك]." [إين وثر ووردس,] عندما قد كان أنت "نبض مرتفعة وضرب نزولا إلى" كافي, أنت تصبح ملائكيّة. أنت قد طمحت إلى واحدة من حياة مجال مملكة [هيغست] بفضل ألمك.
الآن, هذا كلّ بعيدا صرخة من [بتنيكس] و [هيبّي] والمتهوّرة يخدّر وهجر مع الّذي ومع أيّ هو يتلقّى يكون [ميستكنلي] عيّنت.
إقامة وفّق لأكثر فوق [كرووك-ند] لقمة بعد أنّ, تفاصيل على ي خاصّة سفر على الطريق.
بما أنّ أنا كان مشيت كلبي من خلال المتنزهة هذا صباح, لاحظ أنا إشارة أنّ يقول, "أطروفة و [كلن-وب] بعد كلبك."
لماذا يكون هذا خاصّة? زوج الأسباب. لواحدة, استعمل من يخلق الإشارة المركّبة صفة شكل ([كلن-وب]) [رثر ثن] الفعل شكل من نظّفت فوق. [أف كورس], كان المعنى بعد واضحة: غرفت إن كلبك [بووبس], هو فوق و [ديسبوس وف] هو.
الأخرى يكذب [رون] في الإستعمال من أطروفة. ماذا يتمّ أنّ وسيلة?
عقب ييصفّي كلبك, عيّنته إلى الأطروفة إلى أن الكوثل شرطة يصلون? Or worse, take yourself and your dog to the curb and wait there for the park police to exonerate you?
I have no idea why one would take a dog to a park to curb it. Can someone please explain that to me?
The new Fine Living Network series called Newlywed, Nearly Dead, though aiming at a cute word contrast, instead does nothing but murder the English language.
The combined word newlywed refers to someone who has been recently married, not to the act of being newly wed, while nearly dead refers only to the act of being almost expired.
Therefore, the construction is completely unparallel. Instead, it should be written Newly Wed, Nearly Dead so that it refers to two parallel acts, not to one person or persons and one act.
Newlybutchered, newly wrong.
I received an interesting e-mail from a reader named Todd, who was enquiring about the propriety of using the constructions about how and reason why.
I replied that their biggest sin is their utter redundancy. How, reason and why can, depending on the sentence, stand by themselves and do the job solo. About how is also unspecific and therefore unclear in most instances.
Todd himself later mailed some good examples, one of which I’ll shamelessly repeat here:
Original:
"The Usual Suspects is a 1995 film about how five criminals are brought together and embark on a crime spree, with a spectacular plot twist at the conclusion."
Todd’s revision:
"The Usual Suspects is a 1995 film about five criminals who are brought together and embark on a crime spree, with a spectacular plot twist at the conclusion."
(The sentence could further be rendered more readable by deleting and embark.)
Todd didn’t provide any reason why examples, but here’s a particularly egregious one:
"The reason why I’m hungry is because I haven’t eaten in two days."
First off, you can’t follow a linking verb (is) with an adverb (because), so that whole part is out. Second, and back to my main point, either reason, because or why is sufficient by itself.
Revisions:
"The reason I’m hungry is that I haven’t eaten in two days."
"I’m hungry because I haven’t eaten in two days."
So much for my diet, eh? LOL
I rushed this site into existence to take over for Grammar Sucks for a few reasons, one of them dealing with server-side issues. I was switching servers and wanted to retire Grammar Sucks (and use it as a 301 redirect only).
Thus, I slapped this site together and got it up quickly. When it came to titling it, my official URL was and is GrammarSource, but that doesn’t say much about what the site is all about, even with a subtitle under it.
I came up with what I thought was a brilliant idea to create my own word to signify that this site was all about English writing and grammar usage, so I coined the word Englishapedia.
My first impulse was to use Englishipedia, copying Wikipedia, but I thought that would be too obvious a rip-off. Then I toyed with Englishopedia, morphing the generic word encyclopedia.
Now that I look at what I have wrought, and I hate the "a" version. The other two seem much more suited.
If anyone would like to influence my choice over the next few days, please just e-mail me.
Welcome to my new site, which takes over for Grammar Sucks.
The latter site was great and dates back to 1997 or so, but with sucks in the title, my e-mail box was constantly filled with every spammy sexual-perversion offer in the universe. I just got sick of it.
So, welcome to Grammar Source.
I should be back on track here soon with new and substantial postings. To make an excuse, I switched servers this past week, whichI thought that would take a day or less to do. It ended up consuming at least four days, and there are still glitches.
So, to solve the problem, I’m placed Grammar Source on an entirely new hosting service. Things should be fine from now on.
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