A site to help make English grammar more understandable without dumbing down either its significance or its usage.
I was no doubt born a century too late and on the wrong side of the pond. I would’ve been perfect in 19th-century Italy–spending my evenings at Verdi operas. That being said, you must realize that I know next to nothing about the music of Michael Jackson–just the lurid headlines. However, I stumbled upon a page [...]
Consider this from Michael Masnick at TechDirt: If the current US Copyright Law had been in effect over Shakespeare, I think he could have been sued by many authors for copyright infringement for writing that masterpiece. Count how many lawsuits there could have been just for King Lear alone: Shakespeare’s play is based on various [...]
I stumbled across a real, live proofreader today writing about her profession for an online publication called MedPage Today. Not only was it refreshing to read about someone’s plying an honorable but almost extinct journalistic trade, but Liz O’Brien also had two great links. (I wonder if Ms. O’Brien would catch what’s seriously wrong with my previous sentence.) First, [...]
A lot of what’s causing heartache for newspaper finances across the land is flying under the radar. Most pundits point to the availability of news online, which is all very good as one contributing factor, and others chart the migration of ads from print to online–or to oblivion in these trying times. However, as both [...]
Jonathan Littman and Marc Hershon have come out with a new book, and a Web site of the same name, called I Hate People. What it reveals–and what took me almost my entire professional career to figure out–is that you can’t trust anyone at work. They’ll all stab you in the back or throw you [...]