Our writer long avoided exclamation points. Then, the pandemic hit and the lively punctuation became a signal flare in a cold, gray sea. Now he loves their zing! Their fizz! Their pop! #punctuation #grammar

https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/The-Home-Forum/2025/0402/exclamation-mark-punctuation-grammar-question-mark?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Commentary @commentary-csmonitor

#KnowledgeByte: #Genomic #Grammar is a set of associated components for each disease. It can help identify important differences and common aspects in a specific group of diseases.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/posts/Genomic-Language-and-Grammar-660a4bdaa9d5187c1262c9ed

I have a question, Mastodonians!

In English, city night be referenced using the preposition "of", and the first letter of the city doesn't affect the preposition.

- city of Ottawa
- city of Kitchener

But in French the preposition gets contracted if the first letter is a vowel (or sometimes an "h"?):

- ville d'Ottawa
- ville de Kitchener

What are examples in other languages (that use Latin alphabet) that have the behaviour for places that written French does?

How to Use Em Dashes (—), En Dashes (–) , and Hyphens (-) | Merriam-Webster
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/em-dash-en-dash-how-to-use
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43497719

https://www.alojapan.com/1229758/opinion-have-a-foreign-language-love-affair-this-summer/ Opinion | Have a Foreign Language Love Affair This Summer #ELearning #grammar #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseLanguage #JapaneseNews #LanguageAndLanguages #memory #news #TravelAndVacations Last month, for example, my partner and I traveled around Lithuania. While I won’t be dipping into a Lithuanian novel anytime soon, I’ll never forget the word for thank you — ačiū, best remembered as “achoo” — which we deployed each time we stopped for…

What's the equivalent of a finger on a cat's paw? Pawnger? As in, "I asked Chewy not to sit on the keyboard and he stuck two pawngers up at me."

From: blenderdumbass . org

People often point out various grammatical errors in texts people write. As if having better attention to words makes the argument presented more or less valid. So I suppose I'm gonna rant about this.

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/stupid_correct_english

https://www.alojapan.com/1224866/in-need-of-rice-and-some-japanese-words-that-describe-necessity/ In need of rice and some Japanese words that describe necessity #grammar #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #JLPTN3 #JlptN4 #news #nihongo #rice #vocabulary This fall, excitement for the arrival of 新米 (shinmai, the new rice crop of the year) is greater than usual. The lingering effect of last year’s 不作 (fusaku, poor harvest) hit hard in August when rice stock is usually at the lowest level every year. 日本人の食生活に、 お米は必要不可欠です (Nihonjin no…

In 1803, Johan Werfel published a grammar of Danish that was supposedly "for women". It was also both "practical and theoretical".

I digitized the book for the @internetarchive and wrote something about the book for #Lingoblog [In Danish]. I'll try to summarize the most interesting points here! I was curious about what it meant that it was "for women" (besides a general interest in reading old grammar books)

https://www.lingoblog.dk/en-sexistisk-grammatik-dansk-grammatik-for-kvinder-anno-1803/
#linguistics #grammar #sexism #women

antisemitism vs. anti-Semitism

https://www.wordorigins.org/harmless-drudge/antisemitism-vs-anti-semitism

The beauty of compounding in German, but not fully executed graphically, as usual in product names.

Lebensmittelmottenfallendreieck

life+s+means+moth+n+trap+n+three+angle

Triangular food moth trap

From: blenderdumbass . org

People often point out various grammatical errors in texts people write. As if having better attention to words makes the argument presented more or less valid. So I suppose I'm gonna rant about this.

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/stupid_correct_english

2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu42JDczI0w "The Candidate #1 | Crazy Grammar" #english #France #grammar

From 2000 to 2003 I worked with the LKB and now I am looking at the ERG to see how some MRS things are done. It is fun to see the output. Something I worked a lot with back then.

As a dog, that cat is an annoying POS.
As a spread, butter isn't bad.
As a doctor, that might be bad for your health.
#grammar

Another reason why Title Case (the most backward, confusing, inconsistent & easy to get wrong approach to capitalising headings) needs to be consigned to the rubbish bin. I thought that the semiconductor company Pragmatic had a stance against AI for a sec (sorry
@monkchips ;-))

PS Monki Gras is awesome! https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2025/03/13/monki-gras-2025-its-going-to-be-fire-sustainable-open-source-and-pragmatic-takes-on-ai/

Not quite #Grammar but in that area.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQbJO8-T0AI

What do Trump's steel and aluminium tariffs mean for Australia?
from Guardian Oz Media
by Guardian Australia

US president Donald Trump’s global tariffs on steel and aluminium imports have taken effect — and the Australian government’s intense lobbying for an exemption has not been successful. The Guardian's Ben Doherty explains how big of a deal these tariffs are for Australians.
Are Trump’s tariffs the beginning of a global trade war and should Australians be worried?
Donald Trump’s tariffs are disrupting markets around the world – here’s why it could be hurting your super

Did you spot it? Did you see it? Did it leap out & batter your eyeballs as it did mine?

how big of a deal

gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

#English #Language #grammar #idiom #spelling #FuckMerkanMangling #FuckMerkanCulturalImperialism #WriteGooder #TalkGooder ffs!