(Originally posted Monday, April 28, 2008 )
Argh! Another day of work has kept me from blogging until the wee hours. Thus I invite you not to pay so much attention to me today as to go see what’s up at some of my friends’ blogs.
My friend Casey has a good one about being a mom in Texas: http://redneckmother.blogspot.com/
Her husband Chris has a blog about writing for the children’s book industry called “Bartography”:
see it here: http://www.chrisbarton.info/blog/blog.html
I have other friends with blogs I’m forgetting because it’s very early (late).
So now that I’ve been up copy editing all night, a quick list of the latest grammatical terms:
–*Dangling genitives
–*Back-formed non-count nouns
–*Run-on deictic pointing word fetish
–*The high-hat gerund misplacement
–*The oblong miscue
–*The oversexed phrasal adjective
–*The hostile “that”
–*The galloping “whence”
–*More “The and A”! More “The and A”!
–*Les Gallicisms
–*The full-frontal verb hedge
–*The diarrhea run-on clause
–*The serial comma cock block
–*The noble failure back formation variant
–*The throbbing inflection
–*The “why don’t you stick your head up your ass and bounce up and down until you disappear” diminutive suffix
–*The “I accuse you” German noun case
–*The blameless businessman passive voice
–*The “what me worry?” dative case
–*The “that’s what she said” elliptical dangler
Beauty is Imperfection 
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