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How to Show Something Is Really Yours
May 10th, 2008 |Just had to share this grammar blooper from PC Magazine’s Mother’s Day article. Perhaps, the magazine wanted to emphasize Mom belongs to you in superlative terms. Of course, I wanted to know what gadgets they recommended for us geeky moms.
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Free Tools and Sites for Writers
November 28th, 2007 |I had planned on putting this list up ages ago, but kept adding more. It could take a long time to capture many resources, so this is a living entry that I’ll update as soon as I get new resources. Blogs All Freelance Writing Be the Story […]
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All Paid Out
June 14th, 2007 |Came across this unfortunate spelling error that I see often (click the little green box below to view larger). This could happen out of habit since we’re used to simply adding “ed” to change a word from present tense to past tense. I’ve caught myself doing this on occasion. Sometimes my fingers have a mind […]
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Using Apostrophes
May 8th, 2007 |We’ve discussed apostrophes many times here, and we’re not going to stop anytime soon as long as the abuse continues. WikiHow’s How to Use Apostrophes mentions the frequent use of “photo’s” and it’s true. I know a few PTA parents who add an apostrophe in photos. I don’t understand why. It’s not as if it […]
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Bad English in Beijing Gets Official Attention
April 20th, 2007 |A sign in Beijing’s airport says, “Careful Landslip Attention Security.” With the Olympics coming to Beijing in 2008 and over 500,000 foreigners, officials promise to take care of the bad grammar according to this CNN article. They’ve gone so far to ask for help from the public to watch for poor grammar. Other poorly translated […]
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Five Rules for Effective Writing from Orwell
March 23rd, 2007 |Pick the Brain nicely abstracts George Orwell’s 5 Rules for Effective Writing and provides the link to the original essay. I just came across this tool that helps you eliminate cliches from your writing. This helps with Orwell’s first rule of avoiding the use of metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech that you’ve seen […]
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DST Change Is Bad Enough…
March 13th, 2007 |As if the daylight savings time change wasn’t enough to contend with, Microsoft picked a bad page to have a typo. A page that many people have been accessing. What’s verion? What happens when you get two verions? Also found this typo on a kids sports program information page. Do we get to take two classes […]
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Cut the Modifiers and Using “Only”
March 6th, 2007 |Two simple writing tips Stop with the Overdone Modifiers On Writing Well taught me to cut the use of modifiers such as “really,” “very,” “so,” and “quite.” I save those for when I really mean something It’s amazing how many articles I’ve edited that abused these words that they lose meaning. Using Only in Sentences An Ode to […]
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Zeitgeist Definition and Pronunciation
December 13th, 2006 |Pronunciation: ‘tsIt-”gIst, ‘zIt So that’s “zight” “guise+t” like geyser only stop at the “s” and add a “t” on the end. Right? Dallas Columnist Steve Blow [may require free registration] brought “Zeitgeist” to my attention. While reading his column, I realized I had seen this word appear often especially thanks to Google Zeitgeist, which searches for trends […]
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Innocent English Isn’t So Innocent
November 21st, 2006 |When I created the Grammar Gotchas page a few years ago, I had hoped to creat a resource similar to the one at Innocent English. It didn’t work out, but sites like these fill the gap for us grammar geeks. Occasionally, I find a This Is Broken post that involves a language boo boo. I’m all […]
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