Monthly Archive for July, 2008

Anal blogging

There is a blog for almost everything these days, literally (hahaha, someone is cringing right now). Here is one about apostrophe abuse and one about quotation mark misuse. While I admire the creativeness of these bloggers, at the same time I wonder about the degree of obsession that drives a person to set up an entire blog devoted to correcting one type of linguistic or grammatical mistake. But I considered starting one for the use of the word “like”…

If God was German

“…and §257b Section 7 of Commandment 9 says…”







Celebrate!

Just in time for Independence Day, the conditions on my green card have been removed and I am now a permanent permanent resident of this great country. Wohoo!