Monthly Archives: August 2011
“Different than” is different from “different from”
I just learned: In American English, it may be appropriate to use “different than” (instead of “different from”) if the words following it constitute a clause. Especially if (and this is the cool part) the clause is elliptical. So if … Continue reading
Summer’s Flagging
Good news, everybody! I just opened the back door to let the dogs out, and I was not — NOT — met by a squishy wall of warm moist air that wraps itself around my legs and makes me wonder … Continue reading
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Movies
I realized today that nearly all of the movies in my media software can be grouped into one of a very few buckets. (This gives me cause to wonder whether I may not be as amazingly interesting as I had … Continue reading