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• Anthimeria weirds languages

  A little non-technical rant for a Friday. Professor Thingo, in a recent blog entry, decries the use of "Gestalt" as a verb and asks " Does the English language now allow parts of speech to be used entirely interchangeably? Did I miss a memo? " Though Read More... Posted Friday, October 01, 2004 11:44 AM by Eric Lippert | 22 Comments Filed under: Rants, English Usage

• OOP = Obviously Oxmoronic Posting

  In double-checking today's entry, I see that I wrote: Saying that script is bad because spotty teenage vandals use it is obviously specious . Hmm. Is there such a thing as “obviously specious”, or is that an oxymoron? Read More... Posted Monday, March 08, 2004 2:19 PM by Eric Lippert | 5 Comments Filed under: Scripting, Rants, English Usage

• A Grammatical Aside

  I just wrote in a comment to my previous entry, "The ability to rate one's knowledge of a subject accurately is strongly correlated with one's knowledge." Wait a minute. "One's"??? Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 02, 2003 6:48 PM by Eric Lippert | 28 Comments Filed under: Rants, Non-computer, English Usage