by snowbird 130 Replies latest jw friends
I enjoyed that, Burn!
Especially this:
One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one's own habits, and from time to time one can even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase -- some jackboot, Achilles' heel, hotbed, melting pot, acid test, veritable inferno, or other lump of verbal refuse -- into the dustbin, where it belongs.
Tee hee hee.
Syl
"Cut the mustard" drives me crazy... It's MUSTER PEOPLE, CUT THE MUSTER!
*rant over*
Yes, Megs!
Think soldiers, not sandwiches!
Syl
Let me tell you something, I went through a series of black women as English teachers growing up. For some reason, whenever I visualize Syl on a thread, it's often my 7th grade English teacher leaning over my desk with a scowl and forcing me to memorize grammar, which I never did. And they were all mean! I got a "D" that year. For some reason all my English teachers were mean.
BTS
Sorry Sylvia,
I know that I often times find myself grammaticlly challenged
working on it.
Amen Sylvia
How about "walla" instead of "voila"
(((((((Burn)))))))
We had to cut the muster in school, you hear?
No mollycoddling or rationalizing!
You had to toe the line and deliver!
I would rein in any rebellious thoughts and reign like a princess in English, Grammar, and Composition.
Syl
Tee hee hee.
I really like this part. It has made me consciously try to use anglo-saxon words instead of latin/greek ones when possible:
Bad writers, and especially scientific, political, and sociological writers, are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones, and unnecessary words like expedite, ameliorate, predict, extraneous, deracinated, clandestine, subaqueous, and hundreds of others constantly gain ground from their Anglo-Saxon numbers.*
It makes for easier reading, I think.
BTS
Nancy, you do good!
I know it should be well, but what the heck!
Syl
mollycoddling!
Good one!
BTS
