#Grammar
Vient de paraître: French 1020 Final Exam Cheat Sheet par sandvdm
Téléchargez-le gratuitement sur http://www.cheatography.com/sandvdm/cheat-sheets/french-1020-final-exam/?utm_source=mastodon
Voici leur description: Feuille d'aide pour l'examen final écrit French 1020
OK, despite what the style guides say about putting spaces around #ellipses, I’m going to revert back to the unspaced version in all cases except elision, because I just don’t like how the spaced versions look then.
There are three kinds of ellipses: Three period characters separated by (no-break) spaces: `. . .` [Chicago], three period characters with no intervening spaces: `…` [AP], and the Unicode #ellipsis: `…`, which I think can always be a stand-in for the AP style.
To me, placing spaces before and after ellipses only make sense for elision. in the Chicago style: “The fox jumped . . . lazy fox”, and the AP style: “The fox jumped … lazy fox”. To my eyes, the spaces clearly indicate missing words or sentences.
For pauses and trailing speech, I think adding a space makes things look really weird: “I … uh … I mean …” and “Launching in 10 … 9 … 8 …”. For those use cases I like to eliminate the leading space, e.g. “I… uh… I mean…” and “10… 9… 8…”. They just look *better* to me.
The Spy x Family series corrects a significant continuity error in the most ingenious way that is possible
#academic_struggles #Ania #Anyas_name #Anyas_struggles #Character_development #character_insight #childish_tendencies #continuity_error #funny_and_cute_balance #funny_moments #Grammar #In_the_most_ingenious_way_possible #Loid #nameplate #Origins #Pronunciation #relatable_character #series_gags #Short_Mission_11 #special_chapter #Spelling #spelling_words #Spy_...
https://tinyurl.com/ylox3a8v
Why Do People Place a Dollar Sign After a Numeral Online? #grammar https://www.patrickkphillips.com/grammar/why-do-people-place-a-dollar-sign-after-a-numeral-online/
begging attention
unassuming asterisk
for your reference...
***Shout out to all of the writers out there today! Keep rockin it!***
#asterisk #punctuation #grammar #spelling #writing #writingcommunity #writer #writers #poetry #poem #poem #poet #poets #smallpoems #haiku #gift #gifts #giftidea #giftideas #christmas #christmasgifts #flower #flowers #floral #floralart #colorful #fun #cute #art #artwork #artists #artist
e.g. or i.e.? Let's Clarify These Common Latin Abbreviations #grammar https://www.patrickkphillips.com/grammar/e-g-or-i-e-lets-clarify-these-common-latin-abbreviations/
It’s that time of year again…when I get irritated by the #WeatherTech commercial advertising the “Cup Phone.” It’s not a cup phone. It’s a phone cup. You’re not selling a phone; you’re selling a cup that holds a phone. #WordNerd #Grammar
"The present article is then concerned with the standardisation of the apostrophe in the English orthographic system in the period 1600–1900 and pursues the following objectives: (a) to study the use and omission of the apostrophe in the expression of the past tense, the genitive case and the nominative plural in the period; (b) to assess the relationship between the three uses and their likely connections; and (c) to evaluate the likely participation of grammarians in the adoption and the rejection of each of these phenomena in English."
CALLE-MARTÍN, J., & PACHECO-FRANCO, M. (2023). ‘The night before beg'd ye queens's pardon and his brother's’: The apostrophe in the history of English. English Language & Linguistics, 1-20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674323000552 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #English #Language #Linguistics #Philology #Grammar @linguistics
'On the Daily'? Who Came Up with That? #grammar https://www.patrickkphillips.com/grammar/on-the-daily-who-came-up-with-that/
I think I've found my winners for "Unfortunate English Mistakes" this year...
In the "One Letter Makes a Difference" category:
"American companies are hunting minorities; especially Hispanics and Blacks."
and...
In the "Unfortunate set of typos in the same phrase" category:
"Blackock is the largest asses manager in the world."
Wow! Beautiful. From the forthcoming handbook on #LFG by Gerlof Bouma.
I think I switch to LFG. =:-)
Newydd cael gafael o lyfr newydd Gareth King - 'Thinking Welsh'. Mae'n ardderchog (fel bob un o lyfrau gan Gareth). Perffaith os ti'n licio gramadeg ag eglurhad da a synnwyr digrifwch.
📖
Just got hold of Gareth King's new book - 'Thinking Welsh'. It's excellent (like all Gareth's books). Perfect if you like well-explained grammar with a sense of humour.
#Cymraeg #DysguCymraeg #Gramadeg
#Welsh #LearningWelsh #Grammar
Average or Median? The Choice Can Make a Big Difference #grammar https://www.patrickkphillips.com/grammar/average-or-median-the-choice-can-make-a-big-difference/
How should descriptive grammars cover interjections?
Interjections are, in Felix Ameka’s memorable formulation, “the … Continue reading →
https://ideophone.org/how-should-descriptive-grammars-cover-interjections/
Noon and Midnight: Which is 'a.m.' and which is 'p.m.'? #grammar https://www.patrickkphillips.com/grammar/noon-and-midnight-which-is-a-m-and-which-is-p-m/
My 9yo son has homework to find six "adverbial phrases" (I had to look this up) in one of his books. I had to look through three novels to find even one example, and in the end I made four of the six up.
You may say I shouldn't be doing my son's homework for him, and you'd be right. But if you're going to say that, please also explain to me how there is any expectation that any of these primary-age children are going to do this themselves, and what the benefit of doing so is, and what the benefit of knowing what an "adverbial phrase" is? Because the whole thing seems to me like a waste of time designed to teach children that they can't be expected to do their own homework.
#English #englishgrammar #grammar #primaryeducation #education
last boosts: a key reason why I think this matters at all is because I think there are plenty of times when the actual passive voice structure DOES get used* to obscure an agent who definitely should have been mentioned. And it's good to be able to point it out then. Of course there's a ton more to it; check out the blog post.
*by the writers of an official corporate or government press release, for example**
**see what I did there
For detail, see my post 'Passive voice peeving and ignorance' https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/05/13/passive-voice-peeving-and-ignorance/
or the more academic and comprehensive 'Fear and Loathing of the English Passive' by G. Pullum http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/passive_loathing.pdf
Your occasional reminder that when someone complains about something with reference to the passive voice, it's extremely likely they have misidentified and mischaracterized it because they have no idea what the passive voice is.
Jam or Jamb? Don't Get in a Sticky Situation! #grammar https://www.patrickkphillips.com/grammar/jam-or-jamb-dont-get-in-a-sticky-situation/
It takes just a few minutes to go through the infographic, but it could save you years of embarrassment from making simple mistakes #writing #grammar #infographic #writer https://writerupdated.com/2023/11/22/8-most-common-writing-errors-make-you-look-unprofessional-infographic/
English is so weird. An aggressor should be called a BULLER and the target should be called the BULLEE.
It takes just a few minutes to go through the infographic, but it could save you years of embarrassment from making simple mistakes #writing #grammar #infographic #writer https://writerupdated.com/2023/11/22/8-most-common-writing-errors-make-you-look-unprofessional-infographic/
Armchair Quarterback or Monday Morning Quarterback? Same thing? #grammar https://www.patrickkphillips.com/grammar/armchair-quarterback-or-monday-morning-quarterback-same-thing/
Reviewing Grammarly Premium: Does it fit your needs?
https://wittysparks.com/grammarly-premium-review-is-it-worth-it/
#grammarly #grammar #writingcommunity #writingtips
It makes a big difference how we frame the tragedies of war. Victims were killed. They didn’t simply die. Nor is it a journalist’s job to call it murder. That’s for a court to decide. #Palestinians and #Israelis have been killed, plain and simple.
https://www.tiktok.com/@aljazeeraenglish/video/7302454848262376746
People of the Fediverse: If you use an #emoji at the end of a sentence (in a context where punctuation is used), do you end that sentence with #punctuation, or does the emoji serve as a sufficient end-of-sentence signal in your mind?
I.e. the difference between:
"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit 🙂. Donec ultricies vulputate placerat."
and
"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit 🙂 Donec ultricies vulputate placerat."
Aye or Hey? This One is Getting Ridiculous! #grammar https://www.patrickkphillips.com/grammar/aye-or-hey-this-one-is-getting-ridiculous/
The 12 (plus 19) Days of Punctuation: Free tips from "Best Punctuation Book, Period."
No comma before an ampersand—even if using Oxford commas. #BlackFriday #Grammar #AmWriting #AmEditing #Punctuation #OxfordComma https://www.amazon.com/Best-Punctuation-Book-Period-Businessperson/dp/1607744937/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2T57MK80ANBFI&keywords=the+best+punctuation+book+period&qid=1700842326&sprefix=best+punctuation%2Caps%2C327&sr=8-1
Emigrant or Immigrant? Are You Coming or Going? #grammar https://www.patrickkphillips.com/grammar/emigrant-or-immigrant-are-you-coming-or-going/
Our CRC @sfb1412 is financed for another four years! \o/
Our project will do research on #German and #Portuguese.
https://www.dfg.de/service/presse/pressemitteilungen/2023/pressemitteilung_nr_50/index.html
Do's or Dos? What Do You Compare With Don'ts? #grammar https://www.patrickkphillips.com/grammar/dos-or-dos-what-do-you-compare-with-donts/
Can we all, in general, accept that #autocorrect makes mistakes for us, we all make #typos and grammatical mistakes, but in general are all smart and know how to grammar and spell. Can we just overlook all of those mistakes?
Like I feel dumb when I put a mistake out in a chat or email, but I'm not, and generally the people reading know this, but I feel dumb.
Except your and you're when you're arguing on the internet. That's a line in the sand.
As we celebrate Couple's Day in Japan, let's review ways to tell your special someone how great they are. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2023/11/22/language/japanese-language-couples-compliments/?utm_content=bufferec2f2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #life #language #nihongo #vocabulary #grammar
Have you heard about Simple Spellchecker?
https://github.com/jfmdev/simple-spellchecker
It is a neat JavaScript tool for, you guessed it, spellchecking.
'Fatal Drowning'? Isn't That Redundant? #grammar https://www.patrickkphillips.com/grammar/fatal-drowning-isnt-that-redundant/
I think the impulse that leads some people to call Jira tickets just "Jiras" is the same as the one that has people calling blog posts "blogs". Either way, it drives me nuts.
It's also probably the same that got Senator "Series of Tubes" Stevens to say "I sent an internet the other day".
Just heard Dove Cameron's "Sand", and while #grammar sticklers might want to reflexively quibble with her on the less/fewer front, I am 100% willing to put it aside, because "I have less pieces of you than…" parallels the "more pieces" in the previous line, and the demands of meter here *absolutely* trump those of grammar. Jamming "fewer" in there would've been lumpy and killed the (heart-rending!) emotional charge.
Lyrics: https://genius.com/Dove-cameron-sand-lyrics
Music: https://tidal.com/browse/track/327342649
#English #usage
@kelvin0mql
See if you can goad them into saying the name of the letter 'H' (aitch).
:-)
#English #language #pronunciation #grammar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmVnr7rsWrE
《Farther》 or 《Further》?!
Despite various guidelines, they're 《Interchangeable》 The one thing that sets them apart is that only 《Further》 can be used as a 《Verb》
As the article mentions, "Welcome to English." I wouldn't want it any other way. 😅👍
#English #Grammar #Writing #Friday #Webster #SocialMedia #Mastodon #Megalodon #Tusky #Fediverse
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/is-it-further-or-farther-usage-how-to-use
New #grammar pet peeve:
Mythic = legendary, renowned
Mythical = imaginary, fictional.
Hey @grammargirl, I have a question that I’m hoping you can help answer. I learned at one point that the correct usage of the words comply and conform are that you comply with laws, but that products or designs conform to standards. The dictionary is not quite so definitive. What are your thoughts on this?
#grammar #usage
What a thrill to wake up and see THE GRAMMAR DAILY as the #1 new release in Grammar Reference! 🎉
#grammar #Bookstadon #WritingTips #GrammarGirl #TheGrammarDaily
Here's a question for #ImagingScientist #Microscopy folk and #ImageAnalysis people (but also #grammar if that's your thing).
I'm using #DAPI, #SYTOX or something else to label the DNA in cells. I want to segment them based on this.
Am I doing:
A) Nuclei Detection
B) Nucleus Detection
C) Nuclear Detection
D) Other (please comment!)
Please boost and tag any #Imaging folks you know. I need to settle a dispute.
Wishing it was #FluorescenceFriday already.
I feel so validated (and slightly worried about my life expectancy):
"A novel study uncovers our physiological response to misused grammar. Researchers identified a direct link between grammatical errors and a change in Heart Rate Variability (HRV). When confronted with bad grammar, subjects’ HRVs indicated increased stress levels." 😱
Source: https://neurosciencenews.com/stress-hrv-grammar-errors-25128/
Study: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101177
While I'm a stickler about the proper use of Daying Saving (no 's'), I have to hand it to Savant that this GE Sync promo is pretty clever. Even if it does feel about a week too late. #smarthome #grammar #daylightsaving
Very happy to learn that if I ever expatriated to Ireland, I'd be able to use both "amn't" (as per the article) and"youse" (mentioned in comments) without, apparently, anyone batting an eye!
As a child, I was taught that "amn't" is incorrect, and never to use it, and social disapproval has kept me in check, but in my heart of hearts, I've always felt it *should be* the right word.
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2014/03/04/amnt-i-glad-we-use-amnt-in-ireland/ #English #grammar #Ireland
Nouns. Never did trust them. Sneaky stuff.
Not like good, solid, brave, trustworthy adjectives.
Hearing bad grammar results in physical signs of stress, new study reveals - MedicalXpress https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-10-bad-grammar-results-physical-stress.html #grammar #HeartRateVariability #LanguageCognition #FightOrFlight #linguistics
Talking with someone from Poland today, I was delighted to hear them use the extremely Irish word "amn't"
My old post on it: https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2014/03/04/amnt-i-glad-we-use-amnt-in-ireland/
#language #dialect #etymology #words #Ireland #grammar #IrishEnglish
It's weird how the word "ignore" implies intention, but "ignorant" isn't intentional unless you prefix it with "willful".
You can be "ignorant" without knowing it, but you can't "ignore" something without knowing you're doing so.
Either "willfullness" should be implied in "ignorance" like it is with "ingore" or you should have to say "willfully ignore" when used as a verb.
I'm currently reading Generation Ship by Michael Mammay and last night I read a line that nearly caused me to pop a brain aneurysm. The line said that people were "sneaking peaks" at one of the characters. Was there an #editor on this #book? #bookstodon #scifi #grammar
The Go-Go’s in Los Angeles, circa 1980. Jane Weidlin, Margot Olavarria, Gina Schock, Belinda Carlisle, Charlotte Caffey.
Photo by Janette Beckman.
Fun fact. Wonder why their name is possessive? Jane said she was afraid people would read it as “go goss” so she added the apostrophe.
Claudia, what would you look like if you were a #mug
... well...
#Geology #GeologyPage #Nature #minerals #crystals #gems #Nature #NatureLovers #NaturePhotography #Photographer
#Grammar #GrammarMatters #Difference #Spelling #Orthography #CogitoErgoSum
It’s dismaying, the viciously swift way #language and #grammar changes probably due to social media.
My biggest lament: the thattification of human beings and the loss of the word “who.”
I see it all day long on Mastodon, on Bluesky, FB, in web forums, text mgs, email, everywhere.
“Those that,” “people that,” “elected officials that,” “attorneys that,” etc.
We are dehumanizing each other. We are now just objects.
[The irony? It’s all happening right in the middle of the Age of Pronouns.]
If you know where #apostrophes do and don't belong, this will drive you insane. #grammar #punctuation
Grammar Changes How We See, an Australian Language Shows - via Scientific American
#Language #Linguistics #Grammar
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/grammar-changes-how-we-see-an-australian-language-shows/
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
- James D. Nicoll
Surely it should be "zomby" if the plural is "zombies"?
I almost always prefer the European standard of a spaced en dash ( – ) to the US’s unspaced em dash (—). It’s less distracting and feels more semantically accurate as a separator of clauses. (Keeping in mind that every font has different dash proportions.)
Here’s a rare case in which an em would reduce confusion. For a quick moment, I mistook that en for a minus.
Reminder: to "ghost" someone means to stop talking to them (or texting, taking their calls, etc.) *without any warning or explanation*.
Telling someone, "I can't deal with you anymore because of your [WHATEVER]; I'm not talking to you anymore" *is not* "ghosting" them; it's just going no-contact. #words #WordsMeanThings #usage #grammar #vocabulary
Having a grammatical disagreement about, um, grammatical disagreement 👀
What kills me about learning #Latin is you’re effectively learning two languages at once. You’re learning the actual vocab, conjugations, declensions etc – and you’re also learning the language of #grammar itself: what the grammatical rules and parts *are called* and how they map to particular functions of language
Latin is the kind of language that, in the past, used to be drilled by asking discipuli things like “what is the passive second person plural subjunctive” or whatever the fuck
This means that a lot of the language learning tools I’ve encountered are based on the assumption that you already know this ‘second language’ of grammar, so eg the vocab flashcard lists I have found have got verbs in four different forms, and I’m like “what the fuck do those mean? Which is which and how do I know which one is called for in which situation?”
Like, I can tell that one of them is the infinitive and one of them looks like the first person present indicative – and by the way, these are terms that I only know because I’ve had to teach myself grammar in order to edit other people‘s work – what the fuck are the other two??? I’m just looking at them going, “well, you know, it’d be nice to know that”
If you are a native English speaker aged under 50, you probably didn’t learn grammar at school in your first language, and you probably don’t even know how to apply these words to your native language!
As a copyeditor in my own first language, English, I have had to teach myself the language of grammar in order to explain *why* certain choices I intuitively know are right or wrong. I am an EXCELLENT editor and yet I still have to look up English.stackexchange to find out what the word is for the function of language I am trying to explain
I’m honestly not sure if the traditional rote learning method or the intuitive ‘immersion’ method of language learning Duolingo uses is better for Latin
because Duolingo’s weakness is that it is based on guessing: you never learn the rules and so you don’t know *why* something is correct or not correct, which can help you analyse what a certain sentence demands
Basically Duolingo wants to make everyone into the same kind of speaker that I am in English
Surely there’s a happy medium
(Unfortunately I suspect it is ‘formal language classes such as one takes in school’)
Usage note for everyone, since #English is a confusing, annoying, inconsistent, weird language:
apart: separate from
a part of: a piece of, an element or component of
"Connecticut is A PART OF New England, which is worlds APART from the West Coast."
(If you're putting the word "of" after it, you almost always want "a part".)
I'm shining light on "shine" versus "shone" today!
This is just one of a year's worth of delights from THE GRAMMAR DAILY, coming out November 14.
(Every time you preorder a book, an angel gets a taco: amzn.to/48R4T69)
There should be an IDE for writers (novelists, journalists, bloggers, etc). I’m imagining something that feels like PhpStorm, but would check grammar and readability, cross reference with specific data sources, and other Writer-y type tasks.
MS Word is a word processor , and doesn’t count.
I need quick grammatical advice. I asked two friends who are good at this kind of stuff, and they disagreed! Argh. Which sentence is correct?
(A) I do it, not for your sake, but for my own.
(B) I do it not for your sake, but for my own.
I can't understand why the malapropism "diffuse [a fraught situation]" has become so common. It seems obvious (to me) that it's supposed to be *defuse*, as in "defuse a bomb". Why would "spread it all around very thinly" make any sense?
Come on, people. You want to DEFUSE a situation.
***LAST EDITED*** 2/9/23
#AUR
#AboutConfig
#AnnaMadrigal
#Arch
#ArchInstall
#ArchLinux
#Archie
#Archies
#Atheism
#AusPol
#Beatles
#Biodiversity
#BirdMakeup
#CSLewis
#ChangeTheSystem
#ClimateChange
#ClimateCrisis
#DarwinAwards
#Debian
#Distrobox
#DoctorWho
#DouglasAdams
#DrHelenMagnus
#EnidBlyton
#FOSS
#FamousFive
#Fascism
#FediTips
#Fedia
#Fedora
#Firefish
#FirefishBugs
#Firefox
#FirefoxBeta
#FirefoxNightly
#Firejail
#Friendica
#FriendicaHelp
#fsckALLreligion
#FsckChristoFascists
#FsckRWNJs
#FsckThePatriarchy
#FuckAroundAndFindOut
#Gaia
#GilmoreGirls
#GlitchSoc
#GlitchSocial
#GnuCash
#Grammar
#Greens
#HHGTTG
#HumanRights
#JRRTolkien
#KDE
#KDEPlasma
#KMyMoney
#Kbin
#Kinoite
#LauraTingle
#Lesbian
#LibreOffice
#Linux
#LinuxWomen
#Logic
#MichaelWestMedia
#MicroOS
#Misanthropy
#Misdirection
#Misogyny
#MontyPython
#MontyPythonsFlyingCircus
#MostlyHarmless
#MrsMadrigal
#Narnia
#NationStates
#Nihilism
#openSUSE
#Overshoot
#Penguinistas
#Plasma
#PostOp
#ProgIndies
#PulseBrowser
#RWNJs
#RedFireAnts
#RenewableEnergy
#RightToProtest
#RippingYarns
#searX
#Semantics
#Sidebery
#SlowMode
#StateCapture
#SteamEngine
#SteamLocomotive
#SteamLocomotives
#TheDoctor
#TheLordOfTheRings
#TheSpanishInquisition
#TreeStyleTab
#Tumbleweed
#UserJS
#VM
#VPN
#VerticalTabs
#Vivaldi
#VivaldiBrowser
#VivaldiSnapshot
#VivaldiStable
#Wayland
#WeAreSelfishCruelBastards
#WeAreTotallyFscked
#Whimsy
#Whovians
#WindowRules
#Xfce
#YellowCrazyAnts
@tag-AUR@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-arch
@tag-ArchLinux@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-Distrobox@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-FriendicaHelp@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-fsckALLreligion@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-FsckChristoFascists@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-FsckRWNJs@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-FsckThePatriarchy@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-hhgttg
@tag-KMyMoney@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-LinuxWomen@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-MontyPython@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-MostlyHarmless@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-Penguinistas@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-PostOp@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-WeAreSelfishCruelBastards@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-WeAreTotallyFscked@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-Whimsy@relay.fedi.buzz
What it means when you say “literally” #Grammar #WordsMatter https://theoatmeal.com/comics/literally
Beautiful day at Tolt park in Carnation!
My wife is running her first 10k race. They call it Beat the Blerch and it’s organized by The Oatmeal.
The Oatmeal doesn’t print posters anymore, though the manager at the pop up shop told me she’s considering special runs of grammar poster bundles once a year or so.
#TheOatmeal #BeatTheBlerch #Carnation #10k #Running #Grammar
@grammargirl
Mignon, thank you for your podcast "Say hwat?! 'Anxious' versus 'eager.' Pink stein.".
I learned some great tips from your discussion on discourse markers. I will use some in my story where the space pirates use Old English phrases.
Two questions:
1) I presume the rule stands that discourse markers should be used sparingly and probably only in dialogue.
2) Is "Ya Knowin" the Old English "ge witon"?