As part of my job I proofread stuff. Now I’m a decent, but not fabulous, proofer. I’m decent because I’m detail-oriented, but not fabulous because I don’t know the rules of grammar as well as I should. I know them pretty well, but not to the level a professional proofreader or copyeditor should. So I’d [...]
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Reggie’s a smart dog and understands a lot of words. But occasionally when I talk to him and he smiles at me and wags his tail…I can’t help thinking that to him, I’m just an adult in a Charlie Brown world. I didn’t write the following. I didn’t go looking for it. I simply clicked on an unrelated link at Kazza’s blog which took me to ozguru and the following joke. And, hey, if our Australian mates think it’s funny, who am I to disagree? (I have changed not a word!) Hillary Clinton and her driver [...] I’ve mentioned before that Missyisms is getting hits from international searches. Today I’ve had visitors from around the world including Singapore and Romania. We’re all neighbors on the Internet! It made me wonder how well Google translates. I’ll let you be the judge. Bonne chance, oui? Here is yesterday’s post translated into French and translated back [...] I chatted via email with a friend recently and part of his email included the following paragraph (reprinted with permission): "I have some Are you a thermometer or thermostat? Thermometers measure conditions and adjust to reflect those Do you adjust to your surroundings or do you change your Apparently, I don’t speak American like my Midwestern neighbors; but since I’m a displaced Southerner, I already knew that. Not sure what these divisions are: Midwestern vs. Upper Midwestern? Where are these geographically? And in broadcast terms, General American English is Midwestern. Hum? At least, I speak more Dixie than Yankee! That’s a relief. Here’s how [...] Maybe I’ve had my head in the sand, maybe I’m ignorant, maybe I don’t read enough, maybe I read the wrong things, maybe I just don’t remember it…but, no, I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen this word in print before: Unmissable. But there it is, bold as can be, on a British movie poster for [...] |
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