The Twilight Zone: Breaking Dawn « Proceedings of the UK Pier Review Society
december 2011 by infovore
“What Bella doesn’t know is that this is no ordinary home, and the Cullens are no ordinary family. By rescuing an innocent girl from where she fell, they have set her upon a path that could change all their lives for ever. And when Bella emerges from the other end of that path, she may find that things are not what she expected in… the Twilight Zone.” This is priceless.
twilight
twilightzone
pastiche
satire
grammar
december 2011 by infovore
Hyperbole and a Half: The Alot is Better Than You at Everything
april 2010 by infovore
"The Alot is an imaginary creature that I made up to help me deal with my compulsive need to correct other people's grammar. It kind of looks like a cross between a bear, a yak and a pug, and it has provided hours of entertainment for me in a situation where I'd normally be left feeling angry and disillusioned with the world." Lovely. I would like an alot of my own one day.
comic
alot
grammar
english
funny
imaginarycreatures
april 2010 by infovore
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
february 2010 by infovore
""Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." is a grammatically correct sentence used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated constructs." And: what a URL.
buffalo
wikipedia
linguistics
language
grammar
february 2010 by infovore
How I Met My Wife
august 2009 by infovore
"It had been a rough day, so when I walked into the party I was very chalant, despite my efforts to appear gruntled and consolate." And so on.
language
english
grammar
linguistics
writing
negatives
august 2009 by infovore
the "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation marks
august 2007 by infovore
"making fun of bad punctuation since 2005".
punctuation
blog
grammar
humour
august 2007 by infovore
Critical Miss: Issue 10 (Grammar Fascist)
february 2006 by infovore
"Grammar Fascist is a game for everyone who has ever despaired at the pitiful standard of writing displayed on Internet forums. It's a game for everyone who's ever wanted to get in touch with their inner intellectual snob. It's a game for anyone who's eve
game
grammar
funny
internet
forums
idiots
february 2006 by infovore
Harper's Magazine: Tense Present.
april 2005 by infovore
David Foster Wallace on "Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage"
essay
language
linguistics
grammar
april 2005 by infovore
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