• October 28 2011

    Fear Is When End Of The World Might Come

    In honor of the spooky season, I have found yet another wonderful article that I had to edit at one of my former jobs. 

    Although I’m pretty positive that this particular article killed at least 27% of my brain cells, I have to be appreciative of the fact that the writer - who was paid $5 for this content, by the way - was responsible enough to cite their references at the end, making the fact checking part of the process a total breeze.

    It arrived on my desk exactly as it’s presented here (capitalization, spacing, spelling, psychosis, etc.), so as you can see, it still haunts me to this very day; may it also haunt you as your head out for your Halloween weekend festivities.

    But be careful - you may want to read it with all the lights on, or you may be too frightened to ever leave your desk again…

    Fear Is One Of Peoples Things You Have. It Comes From Ghost From Homes. Business, Moves, Different Place’s Were Spirits Make You Fear Of Them. Spirits Makes Noise To Let You Know That They Are There. Spirits Tell You Get Out. They Don’t Want You There. They Make You Be Fearful Of Them. There Some? That Wants You To Know That They Want Help. But Fear Is So Many Ways Of Looking At It. When Person Comes Up And Puts Things In Your Mind.  That Is Fear That Sets In Your Mind. The Fear Of Going Into  House That Could Be Hunted.  Spirit That Puts Fear Into Your Mind. Fear Scares You. Being Fearful Of Being In Acting Play. Fear Of   Losing Things. Fear Of Hurting Your Self. Fear Of The Unknown. Fear Of What To Know About. Fear Of Doing Something That You Don’t Want To Do. Fear Of Doing Something That Will Fall Flat On You. Fear Of Just Being Fear Of Anything. Fear Of Being Target Of Some One That Don’t Like      You.   Fear Of Being Around People That Don’t Like You. Fear Of Dieing.    Fear Of Getting In Trouble For What Every You Did. Fear Of Making Few Steps Ahead. Fear Of Meeting People. Fear Of Being Tested For Different       Things. People Fears Of All Things In Life. People Fears Of War.  Fear Of Everything All Around Us. Fear Is All What You Make Of It In Life. Fear Is When End Of The World Might Come.

    References: fear

    Oct 28, 2011 @ 12:02 pm

    post tags: Halloween education grammar language losing my mind work TGIF!

  • August 29 2011

    "Please carefully follow all instructions before you submitting your responses."

    Editor job announcement


    Aug 29, 2011 @ 1:34 pm

    post tags: language work America grammar

  • September 25 2010

    "

    White space, I would argue, should be considered a form of punctuation, partly because other traditional marks of punctuation work have been designed to create it. Let’s take, for example, borscht belt comedian Henny Youngman’s most famous joke, which I found punctuated four different ways online:

    1. Take my wife, please.
    2. Take my wife … please.
    3. Take my wife. Please.
    4. Take my wife — please.

    If the secret of humor is timing, then the secret of timing on the page is punctuation. In this case, my preference is #4. The comma offers the least separation between the premise and the punch line. The ellipsis is too airy. The period separates elements of a complete thought, turning what should be one sentence into two. But the dash manages to both connect and separate the elements. Notice that part of that separation is the creation of white space between “wife” and “please.”

    "

    Roy Peter Clark :: On National Punctuation Day, Let’s Celebrate White Space : Poynter Online

    via sasquatchmedia

    (via opalandtheidiot)

    Oh how I love this sort of talk.

    Maybe I do need to go back for my doctorate…

    Arg.

    Sep 25, 2010 @ 5:25 pm

    post tags: linguistics language grammar syntax awesome arg

  • June 22 2010

    When dinner has this many adjectives, you know it’s gonna be good.

    When dinner has this many adjectives, you know it’s gonna be good.

    Jun 22, 2010 @ 8:53 pm

    post tags: dinner grammar language linguistics syntax adjectives frozen pizza