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lightcastle) wrote2009-10-17 01:20 pm
lightcastle) wrote2009-10-17 01:20 pm
Why you should read Language Log
Posts such as these:
* Did it really change from "The United States are" to "The United States is" due to the Civil War?
* Whether or not dangling participles are really ungrammatical in English.
* A discussion of sentence fragments, specifically if you can start a sentence with an initial coordinator such as "and" or "but", inspired by Where the Wild Things Are. With follow-up asking for a new term.
* How *not* to learn Chinese Characters.
* Which leads nicely into why translation software isn't always the best choice. Spread to fuck the fruit.
* Did it really change from "The United States are" to "The United States is" due to the Civil War?
* Whether or not dangling participles are really ungrammatical in English.
* A discussion of sentence fragments, specifically if you can start a sentence with an initial coordinator such as "and" or "but", inspired by Where the Wild Things Are. With follow-up asking for a new term.
* How *not* to learn Chinese Characters.
* Which leads nicely into why translation software isn't always the best choice. Spread to fuck the fruit.