Published at: 01:04 pm - Wednesday April 30 2008
Today I lost my mind on Twitter and pointed out some often misused words & punctuation marks. For posterity, I will enumerate them again here, having wiped off the overtones of condescension and annoyance. 1. Apostrophe use: some simple guidelines. Apostrophes do not mark plural. Do not use them to mean more than one of [...]
Published at: 12:04 pm - Wednesday April 30 2008
to explain the data in the last post: Ruth E. Cisneros | LING 590 | Formulaic Language Formulaic Language & Humor: An overview of idiomatic language usage in comedy I. Introduction The initial focus of this paper was to explore the intersection between formulaic language and humor by exposing the former in the latter. However, [...]