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Polysyndeton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"And the German will not be able to help themselves from imagining the cruelty their brothers endured at our hands, and our boot heels, and the edge of our knives. And the Germans will be sickened by us. And the Germans will talk about us. And the Germans will fear us. And when the Germans close their eyes at night, and their subconscious tortures them for the evil they’ve done, it will be with thoughts of us that it tortures them with." Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), Inglourious Basterds
english  grammar  habits  language  words  style  writing  trope 
september 2010 by mwfogleman
Productivity 101
Work in a field you love, take advantage of audio learning, eliminate interruptions, log your time usage, use timeboxing.
lifehacks  productivity  stevepavlina  article  english  work  selfimprovement  zen 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice - ChronicleReview.com
So I won't be spending the month of April toasting 50 years of the overopinionated and underinformed little book that put so many people in this unhappy state of grammatical angst. I've spent too much of my scholarly life studying English grammar in a serious way. English syntax is a deep and interesting subject. It is much too important to be reduced to a bunch of trivial don't-do-this prescriptions by a pair of idiosyncratic bumblers who can't even tell when they've broken their own misbegotten rules.
reference  education  books  writing  culture  history  language  english  review  linguistics  style  criticism  grammar  composition  strunk 
april 2009 by mwfogleman

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