Does good grammar matter?
True or false? Your written grammar doesn’t have to be particularly good, since what matters most is the imaginative or factual content of your work.
Author: Lucy Day Werts
The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker
Pinker says: Respect your tools and break the rules. And much else besides!
30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary
The 1950s content, paper, fonts, and typesetting make for a kind of armchair time-traveling experience.
I don’t think it means what you think it means.
I’ve noticed that Carousellers use words for furniture in surprising ways.
Carouspell: A collection of spelling mistakes in Carousell classified ads
On classified ad sites like Carousell, language assumptions that pass unnoticed in speech are made visible.
English grammar: How to use pronouns ‘I’, ‘me’, and ‘myself’
It’s worth knowing which roles those different words are supposed to play in a sentence.
Does “oblong” mean “rectangle”?
“The voice came from an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror which formed part of the surface of the right-hand wall.” —Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four
Jang Won’s new sign
Previously, I posted about an “all day available a la carte buffet” at Jang Won. They have a new sign now, and it’s better!