English/Grammar
French Friends
I think everyone has a few of those built-in mental cross-ups that make you spell or confuse the same words all the time. I consider myself a very good speller, but some words just continually come out wrong. For example, when I want to write both, I always write bothe and then delete the e. [...]
Literally
Don’t use the word “literally” when you don’t mean what you’re saying literally.
I feel like an asshole. – ok
I kinda feel like an asshole. – ok
I literally feel like an asshole. – not ok. And if you do literally feel like an asshole, please do not talk to me.
I Do Hate You
Ok, so you get some kind of bill or statement in the mail, and golly gee, there seems to be a mistake. A big mistake. Like, you were double charged on a $2,000 purchase which not only maxed you out, but also drove up that minimum payment so that your online autopayment wasn’t large enough [...]
Gruntled and Whelmed
I know this sort of thing has been mentioned by others, but I feel it’s worthy of a few lines here as well. I want to start using the root words of words that only ever appear with some sort of prefix. Sometimes people would know what I was doing, and sometimes it would sound [...]
Infixation
I’m a bit of a linguistics nerd. I think I like it because language is such a complex thing and everyone uses it so freely without really having an understanding of why they say what they do. Most people suck at it, too.
Anyway, I took an applied linguistics course in the spring and at one [...]
Apostrophe Catastrophe
I think it’s safe to assume that most of us are on Facebook. And most of us on Facebook have at least a few friends that aren’t actually friends, per se. Acquaintances, friends of friends, people we just want to keep an eye on, people from high school we never really spoke to but felt [...]
