杰克Kerouac ： 不是确定垮了的一代人

我为我即将来临的路线66净化作用或者旅途做准备发现我的根(我应该不现在做了40年前的事)，我读我可以发现的所有“路”书，包括 在路 由杰克· Kerouac。

其中一美国人伟大的反语文学和历史是Kerouac被认为垮了的一代人的祖先，是和离真相很远的地方尽可能。

Kerouac是涉足佛教，并且整个它全部是威廉F.的天主教徒。 政治保守性的Buckley类型。 他没有穿着胡子和牛仔裤，而是抽了茶，当然，当他叫大麻和，喝了很多。

当他提到了披头士一代，他描述了它的居民和“摔打并且摔打在下” -在其他词，下和分离地被推挤了和成交的严厉冲击，社会上，心理地和财政的世代。 他甚而视同了是“敲打”与“祝福”。 换句话说，当您是“时摔打并且摔打在”足够，您下变得天使。 您向往到其中一个生活的最高的领土由于您的痛苦。

现在，这是所有相差很远从垮了的一代人和嬉皮和和与的鲁莽的掺杂和放弃哪些他错误地被辨认了。

为更多Kerouac和位在那以后，细节稍候在我自己的旅途 在路.

更加奇怪的英语被发现在我的地方公园

当我通过公园今晨走我的狗，我注意了标志说， “遏制和清洁在您的狗以后”。

为什么是奇怪的这？ 两三个原因。 为一，谁被创造标志使用了复合形容词形式(清洁)而不是动词形式 清扫。 当然，意思是清楚的： 如果您的狗船尾，挖出它并且处理它。

另一reaon在用途在 遏制. 什么那个手段？ 在您的狗排粪之后，分配他到遏制，直到船尾警察到达？ 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?

TV Title ‘Newlywed, Nearly Dead’ Not Nearly English

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.

‘Reason Why’ and ‘About How’

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

NotWord Quandary: A, O or I?

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.

Catching Up With Everything

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.