#WritersCoffeeClub 24 May 'What in your writing 'dates' you?'
There are no hyphenated words in the English language.
OK, there may be one or two, but they are extremely rare.
Will somebody please tell Microsoft Word to stop annoying me.
I have just typed "mid afternoon" in my WIP. Correctly!
Yes, this is the hill I want to die on.
No, I won’t enter into discussion.
#scifi #CopperWolf #education #stem #writingCommunity #English #grammar #UKedchat
I before E except after C, or when sounds like an A as in Neighbor and Weigh.
Also, since I am being all bitchy, the possessive of "it" has no apostrophe.
#grammar #silliness It's not an injunction, just a label, betraying a wee bit of confusion over irregular verb tenses
I've noticed people using "poignant" when I think they really mean "pointed" and once I noticed it, I cannot unnotice it. But maybe it's only the #TrueCrime sphere? Or have you noticed it elsewhere? #words #grammar
Don't mess with me.
I KNOW SEMICOLONS!
I saw someone mention an alternative to Grammarly, but can't seem to remember or find what it is. I believe it was open source? Anyone have an idea? #Grammar #writingcommunity
Breaking: Semicolon suffering mid-career crisis; usage plummets 50% in two decades. "I used to connect independent clauses, now I just connect with Netflix," says ;
Study shows only 11% of British students use semicolons frequently. Looks like Vonnegut's punctuation prediction is coming true, period.
Hi Mastodon,
I have a stupid #grammar question. I can't remember the technical term for someone that verbs. Ie. someone that runs is a runner; someone that farms is a farmer. What's it called?
Edit: got it. Agent noun, for those playing at home.
Hell, once they're caught, they should get extra time added to their sentence just for the #spelling & #grammar.
With regards to software forges, etc. -- would you say that projects are hosted *on* or *at* Codeberg, GitHub, GitLab, Debian Salsa, etc?
That is "Project Binky is hosted at GitHub" or "Project Mort is hosted on Codeberg"?
Has anything been written on the historical processes behind zero copula clauses? (ideally beyond individual languages) #linguistics #grammar
**Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests**
“_Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it_”
LanguageTooler GmbH released #Grammar and Spell Checker - LanguageTool for Chrome version 8.20.0. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/rechtschreibpr%C3%BCfung-%E2%80%93-lan/oldceeleldhonbafppcapldpdifcinji
Had a random memory this morning that enabled me to search out the earliest www activity of mine that I've found to date: a submission I remembered making to a site devoted to quotation marks abuse back in 1998. Feeling old is on the agenda for today 😅
Stop the decline!
Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests | Language | The Guardian
> Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it
What does this mean, for all of us? 🤓
Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests
From: blenderdumbass . org
People often point out various grammatical errors in texts people write. As if having better attention to words makes the argument presented more or less valid. So I suppose I'm gonna rant about this.
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/stupid_correct_english
#English #Language #FreeSpeech #Grammar #Poetry #Prose #Freedom
Macht da weiter, wo die Sprachtheorie(n) der
{p,P}hilosophischen Anthropologie aufgehört haben: bei der Grammatik.
Deutsche Grammatik instruktiv. Eine philosophisch-anthropologische Einführung.
#linguistik #linguistics #philosophie #philosophy #grammatik #grammar
