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Sei-mese-vecchi bambini negli annunci della TV chi parlano inglese come i laureati de Harvard MBA di 35 anni?

Cani ed altri animali che possono parlare inglese pure (o come male) come vostro portello seguente tipico addled dell'adolescente?

(O lucertole che che può ballare?)

Piuttosto vedrei gli esseri umani' scortecciare' dell'inglese parlante, o gli adulti sviluppati' “che mewling e che puking„ come gli infanti piuttosto che gli infanti' che peorating circa i prodotti di consumatore. Almeno descriverebbe più esattamente lo stato umano.

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Un Seriouse Lacke di giudizio

Approvazione, ho ottenuto usato all'uso della parola sbagliata l'ortografia di giudizio su Chef del ferro. Tuttavia, ora inoltre sta usando sopra Centro sportivo di ESPN.

Ho fatto una ricerca piccola del dizionario per vedere se giudizio, l'errore d'ortografia, ha guadagnato l'accettabilità. La risposta è sì e no. Un dizionario elenca l'ortografia “di e„ come alternativa, ma allora continua ad illustrare l'uso giudizio citando usando di esempi di frase giudizio, l'ortografia corretta. Inoltre ha definito giudizio stretto, ad esempio era “il documento giuridico che dichiara il motivo per un'opinione giudiziaria.„

Linea inferioregiudizio è l'unica ortografia, derivante dalla parola francese jugement (che usa “una e,„ stranamente).

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Wording della seconda correzione esaminata

Nessuno possono accusare mai gli autori della nostra costituzione di essere esperti di grammatica. Prenda la seconda correzione, argomento di regolamento di ieri della Corte suprema. Legge:

“Una milizia bene-regolata, essendo necessaria alla sicurezza di un libero dichiara, la destra della gente mantenere e sopportare le armi, non sarà infranto.„

Ora, ignorando il fatto che, nel diciottesimo secolo, popolano i nomi spesso capitalizzati per enfasi, la frase ancora ha problemi strutturali. Dovrebbe leggere, “una milizia bene-regolata che è necessaria….„ Essendo è un gerundio e deve essere preceduto così da un possessivo. Inoltre, la virgola dopo Armi separa l'oggetto dal verbo ed è un nessun-nessun reale.

Che cosa circa il significato della correzione?

Storia completa„

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Credit Shakespeare With Oyster Supremacy

In irony of ironies, considering how poor I am, I woke up this morning and opened the shutters in my living room to see the sun rising from the east and said outloud (yes, I do talk to myself), "The world is my oyster." Of course, it’s not, and actually I said, "The woild is my oyster," mimicking a Mafioso or someone from stereotypical New Jersey/New York.

That got me to look up the origins of the saying, and it is indeed something from The Bard in The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Said Pistol to Falstaff therein:

Why, then the world’s mine oyster,
Which I with sword will open.

Maybe I’ll just fall on my sword. LOL

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AP Takes on the Blogosphere

A site called the Drudge Retort, a liberal answer to the Drudge Report, was ordered by the Associated Press (AP) to cease and desist using snippets of AP articles in its own articles this past week.

Drudge II complied, but objected that copyright law permits the "fair use" of copyrighted material, in limited portions, for scholarly and academic purposes.

I doubt I’d consider either Drudge I or Drudge II scholarly or academic, but I defend their right to quote from published sources and comment on them. This is the meaning, to me, of a free press. I do it all the time here and on my other blogs.

Anyway, a spat ensued, and eventually AP backed away from its legal threat and said the organization "needed to rethink" matters.

What really galled AP, from what I can determine from reading between the lines, is that Drudge and other sites were using the quotations as tie-ins to advertising.

If that’s the case, then AP has a good argument.

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Happy Friday the 13th, You Paraskavedekatriaphobiacs

Paraskavedekatriaphobia is a word formed from three Greek words: paraskevi (Friday,) dekatreis (thirteen) and phobia (fear or phobia), meaning "fear of Friday the 13th." Triskaidekaphobia means just "fear of the number 13."

There you go. Learn something everyday. Happy Friday the 13th!

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Nothing to Do With English Grammar, But Useful

I came across this site that lists the highest–and lowest–gasoline pump prices in each state and counties, parishes, areas, etc., within that state.

I checked it against my local knowledge, and while it was good, it didn’t list the stations that I know to consistently have the lowest prices. Still, it beats not knowing where to save money.

It’s called Gas Buddy.

PS Unless I’m mistaken, look for gas prices to reach $5 a gallon by the Fourth of July, or shortly thereafter. They’ll come down in September or October for the presidential election and then continue their upward march after the new president is elected.

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Congrats to Spelling Bee Champ Sameer Mishra

Much was made on the video waves about his earlier confusion of the word numnah with numbnut, but 13-year-old Sameer Mishra finally won the 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee with the word guerdon. Watch below:

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NOPEC Shows Government Garble at Its Standard Worst

The politics is bad too, but I’ll leave that aside.

Congress recently passed a piece of legislation known affectionately as NOPEC, which may as well stand for No One Possibly Expects Clarity, but instead is an acronym for The No Oil-Producing and -Exporting Cartels Act." Okay, I added the hypens because no one in Washington, D.C., could possibly understand compound adjectives, let alone writing basic, clear English.

What this act does is allow Congress and its designated henchmen to sue OPEC countries if they feel the latter has been withholding production of oil and thus artificially raising prices through manipulation of supply and demand. Good luck with these lawsuits, but let’s take a look at the enabling language of NOPEC:

"It shall be illegal and a violation of this Act," declared the House of Representatives, "to limit the production or distribution of oil, natural gas, or any other petroleum product … or to otherwise take any action in restraint of trade for oil, natural gas or any petroleum product when such action, combination, or collective action has a direct, substantial, and reasonably foreseeable effect on the market, supply, price or distribution of oil, natural gas or other petroleum product in the United States."

As I said, good luck with NOPEC. And good luck with writing clear English. You’ll need it in both cases.

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Nice Use of Juxtaposition in Newspaper Story

The sports journalists of the world made hay this past week with allegations that USC college basketball phenom O.J. Mayo had been on the take the whole time since high school.

A few days after the story broke, Mayo met with Los Angeles Times reporter Ben Bolch to deny the allegations, saying:

"So for them to say I received $30,000 or whatever the case is, I definitely don’t think that’s enough to sell out myself and my family."

That was in the next-to-last paragraph. Here’s what the last paragraph observed:

"Following the interview, Mayo slipped off into a new red Porsche Cayenne GTS with two friends and drove off."

Nice juxtaposition. Or was it irony?

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