Comments for Mark Allen Editorial

Comment on Fulsome: Whether full or foul, make sure meaning is clear by Mark Allen

Mark Allen — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:14:54 +0000

Stan Carey supplies further evidence in this (as always) excellent blog entry: http://stancarey.wordpress.com/2013/05/04/the-trouble-with-fulsome/

Comment on ‘Awe’ spreads faster than dictionaries can keep up by Mark Allen

Mark Allen — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:11:24 +0000

A poem designed to help us remember all the two-letter words acceptable in Scrabble describes both meanings of “aw”:

We make the sound AW when we see kittens sneeze,
or when lumberjacks insensitively AX stately trees.

Here is the complete poem: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/13/national-scrabble-day-a-poem-so-you-ll-know-all-101-two-letter-words.html

Comment on We need not suffer this affective disorder by chinamatt

chinamatt — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 20:02:34 +0000

This would’ve been a good explanation to use when teaching ESL. Of course, for those students, it was easier to understand “effect” as only a noun.

Comment on Here are the winning winners in the Tweeted Haiku Contest by Link love: language (52) | Sentence first

Link love: language (52) | Sentence first — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:09:55 +0000

[...] March forth and enjoy / 269 / Grammar Day haiku. [...]

Comment on Funny, but it’s still rock ‘n’ roll to me by David A. Hale (@_daveh70)

David A. Hale (@_daveh70) — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:06:34 +0000

This is exactly the kind of disaster that C.A.R. Hoare warned us about. I’m going to try typing the 8217 numeric entity… rock ’n’ roll! Crossing my fingers…

Comment on Here are the winning winners in the Tweeted Haiku Contest by Mark Allen

Mark Allen — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 02:18:04 +0000

Josh Evans fifth-place haiku has been updated to restore a dropped word (and syllable) in the third line:

Is mood subjective?
Would that the subjunctive be
more than just a mood