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- Language Log » Political castration
Everybody seems to be talking about Jesse Jackson's whispered expression of annoyance with Barack Obama. And I have something to say about it too. I'm not going to comment on the strange choices that editors and broadcasters have made in bowdlerizing Jackson's phrase "I want to cut his nuts off", though that's an interesting topic in itself. Instead, I want to express puzzlement about the phrase itself.
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re: win some lose some.
i LOVE having my mind blown. thanks, norm.
re:mcewans story: the story itself is common enough if you take the variables into account (sorry, still thinking about probability) but he writes so beautifully, emphasizing just the right thing in just the right way with astounding economy, i found it quite touching. am i to understand this is from the foward to a book the brother in question has written about the subject? if so, i don't know if thats a good move on the part of the publisher or the mcewans. ians' brothers' prose will necessarily seem (by the laws of probability:))lackluster by comparison.
Hi Jonathan
regarding your posting
look here
http://www.apostrophe.fsnet.co.uk/index.htm
hi pedantsareus. thanks for the correction. my general philosophy with regard to grammar, as well as...just about everything is "you've gotta know the rules before you can break 'em", and in this case i really was more than a little fuzzy about the proper use of apostrophes. don't be surprised, however, if i continue to make the same kinds of mistakes in the future, since ease and speed of typing is really paramount for me. i usually give it a once-over before i hit "post", but only edit if the mistake in question could lead to confusion for the reader.
btw, i'm guessing that "posting" is the correct form of the noun most people write as "post". isn't there any democracy in grammar? nobody says "posting", though i assume it's correct because you use it. and, while i'm on the subject, isn't there a difference between what we write here and what norm posts? yet they're both "postings", i think. confusing. but thanks again.
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