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私の根を(私が前に40年べきである何か、)今する発見することを私が私の次のルート66のcatharsis、か旅行のために準備するように私は私が見つけてもいいall the 「道」の本を読み含んでいる 道 ジャックKerouac著。
アメリカ人の大きい皮肉の1つは文献およびKerouacが可能ように真実には約同様にほど遠いビート族のprogenitorとみなされること歴史である。
Kerouacは仏教で水で濡らし、それすべて中ウィリアムによってF.があったカトリック教徒だった。 Buckleyのタイプの政治保守主義者。 彼は彼がマリファナおよび当然呼んだと同時に、ひげおよびジーンズを身に着けていなかったが、茶をたくさん飲んだ煙らした。
彼が音生成を参照したときに、彼は「あって打ち、-他の単語、そして対処された厳しい打撃、社会的に、心理学的にそして財政上そしてばらばらに押された生成で…の下で」打ちなさいように住民を記述した。 彼は「至福と一致した「音」であることを」。 すなわち、「あったとき打ち」、十分のの下でなる天使に打ちなさい。 あなたの苦労によって生命で最も高い王国の1つに熱望した。
今度は、これは彼が間違って識別されたかどれをとすべてビート族からの大きな違いおよびヒッピーおよびと無謀な添加および放棄である。
多くに引続き注目しなさいKerouacおよびその後のビット、細部は自分自身で旅行する 道.
私が公園を通って私の犬今朝歩いていたと同時に、私は言われる、「あなたの犬の後の縁そして一掃」。という印に気づいた
これはなぜ独特なあるか。 幾つかの理由。 1つのために、印作成された誰でも使用した混合の形容詞の形態を(一掃動詞形態よりもむしろ)の きれいにしなさい。 当然、意味はまだ明確だった: あなたの犬のpoopsが、それをすくい、捨れば。
他のreaonは使用にのある 縁. 何がその平均か。
あなたの犬が排便した後、poopの警察が着くまで縁に彼を割り当てなさいか。 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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