Litsy

Words on the Move: Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally) | John McWhorter

I challenged myself this year to really read more non-fiction … used to hover around 15-25% of my overall reading. My aim was around 50% and now I am at 46%… I‘m happy with that number and I‘m enjoying all the new things I‘m learning.

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dabbe

Schoolhouse Rock!: The Official Guide | Tom Yohe, George Newall

I have had this on loop all day. 250 years later, and we're still fighting this. Thanks to all who went out there today to fight the good fight. I got blindsided with a hellacious cold and didn't want to spread my germs, but I've been there in spirit. #resist 💙✊🏻♥️

If you've never seen Schoolhouse Rock, especially this one, it's worth 3 minutes of your time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvOZs3g3qIo

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TheBookHippie Feel better!!!! 2mo

ChaoticMissAdventures I live in Portland Oregon so we are pretty learned in the protest ways. I was Bail Friend today. Meaning I hang out, all my friends have my number written on their arm and if they get arrested or sent to hospital I am in charge of organizing their release. We rotate Bail Friend duties. It has been a quiet day and all my people are done for the day so that feels good. 2mo

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Aims42 Hope you feel better! Yeah, 250 years later and we‘re back to this 🙄 2mo

Graciouswarriorprincess Sending hugs! Hope that you feel better soon! I was there today protesting! 2mo

Leftcoastzen There is a terrible cold going around. My letter carrier had it . He kept thinking he had COVID, but tested negative 3 times. His lasted nearly a week 2mo

Deblovestoread Feel better! We had good weather, larger crowd, lots of honking and some fantastic clever signs. 💙✊🏼💙 2mo

dabbe @Ruthiella ✊🏻💙✊🏻 2mo

dabbe @TheBookHippie How the hell do you get a cold when it's 100+ degrees outside? 🤔🤣 2mo

dabbe @ChaoticMissAdventures What a stellar idea! I've never heard of that before! Glad all your peeps are safe. ✊🏻💙✊🏻 2mo

dabbe @Aims42 TY! When will we learn? 😳 2mo

dabbe @Graciouswarriorprincess Yay you! I hope all went well and that everyone is safe. ✊🏻💙✊🏻 2mo

dabbe @Leftcoastzen #ruhroh You know, I didn't even think of testing to see if it's Covid. I wonder if my kits have expired. 🤔 2mo

dabbe @Deblovestoread TY! You people in Oregon ROCK! ✊🏻💙✊🏻 2mo

Graciouswarriorprincess @dabbe Yes. We stayed safe and it was peaceful protesting. 2mo

Ruthiella @Deblovestoread The signs are the best. Such great reading this afternoon. One of my favorites was History: “Don‘t make me repeat myself”. 2mo

melissajayne The photos I saw from the various rallies looked amazing, meanwhile turnout for Donnie‘s party was in the toilet 2mo

TheBookHippie @dabbe S T R E S S … 2mo

dabbe @Graciouswarriorprincess Yay! 💙♥️💙 2mo

dabbe @Ruthiella @Deblovestoread My favorite was “The only good orange monarch is a butterfly.“ 🦋 (which there was a monarch emoji!) 2mo

dabbe @TheBookHippie I have no reason to be stressed; I'm retired! 🤣 Yet ... 2mo

TheBookHippie @dabbe your immune system sees stress and lessens and thus ….a cold. 2mo

TheBookHippie @dabbe 🤦🏻‍♀️😵‍💫🫣👀🤷🏻‍♀️ 2mo

dabbe @TheBookHippie 😘 2mo

dabbe @TheBookHippie You hate Schoolhouse Rock? 😲 2mo

TheBookHippie @dabbe no -colds. 2mo

dabbe @TheBookHippie Whew! 😅 2mo

IMASLOWREADER feel better 2mo

AnnCrystal Best that you stayed home and rest. Hope you feel better soon 🙏🏼💝. 2mo

dabbe @IMASLOWREADER TY! 😍 2mo

dabbe @AnnCrystal TY! 😍 2mo

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LiseWorks

Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What Is an Adjective? | Brian P. Cleary

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I think that as an adult, I appreciate the reminder of the English language. #ISpyBingoMay Finally a bingo line. @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Looking great!! 2mo

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GingerAntics

Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark | Cecelia Watson

Perhaps there is a better way to communicate my feelings about this book… I never physically read an Alexis Hall book until this year. I loved their writing, and had listened to multiple audiobooks of AH books. When I first started reading one of Hall‘s books, I noticed the grammar wasn‘t “correct.” If I had read my first AH book, I may have never read another. I may have never finished that first book.
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GingerAntics Is style, that is perfectly clear and understandable, with great story telling, somehow less than because it‘s not written within the same rules as an academic paper? Not even all academic papers follow the same rules, so how can we hold works of fiction to those same standards. If an author‘s writing becomes unclear, unintelligible to you, now you have a problem. Until then, it‘s a stylistic choice. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 (edited) 4mo

GingerAntics Hall writes the way people think. People talk the way they think. This shouldn‘t be “wrong.” It is only wrong by modern standards, as until modern times one could write as they chose as long as the point was clear. Maybe we need to return to that a little bit, especially when talking about literature. #CeceliaWatson #Semicolon #Grammar #AlexisHall #PushTheBoatOutHall (edited) 4mo

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GingerAntics

Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark | Cecelia Watson

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This was enlightening, and actually answered some questions a few former colleagues and I have had for close to a decade now about how these great thinkers and intellectuals of old seem to have no sense of grammar rules... BECAUSE THE RULES WE ARE HOLDING THEM TO DID NOT EXIST IN THEIR LIFE TIMES.
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GingerAntics People have tried shoehorning these writings into modern grammar rules, all to the detriment of those wishing to read these great thinkers and intellectuals in the present. Especially when one considers that these rules are not, in any way, uniform even at a given point in time. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 4mo

GingerAntics Policing language appears to be - from the beginning - just one more way to oppress the poor, minorities, and otherwise “other” of the English speaking world. It was supposedly an attempt to make language into a science which it never has been and never will be. It was not until recent decades that parents even wanted grammar taught in schools, and even that was more a case of “we suffered through it, so can you.” 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 4mo

GingerAntics There is a time and place for “proper” grammar. Proper grammar allows what one has written to effectively communicate. If what you have written is unclear, that‘s a problem. If it‘s clear what you mean, nothing else should matter. In fact, it has, in our divisive times, because an accepted reason to completely disregard other points of view without ever addressing or even paying attention to those points of view. #CeceliaWatson #Semicolon #Grammar 4mo

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GingerAntics

Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark | Cecelia Watson

We are turning grammar into gate keeping of language. We are punishing language learners, people who have not had the same education opportunities we have had, or someone using a different way of communicating with the same language. Remember, that in the 19th century, grammar police tried to correct the grammar of WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE! There is a time and a place, but neither of those is everywhere and all the time.
#CeceliaWatson #Semicolon

Sace I have to read this book. As a language teacher I am fascinated by grammar and linguistics (and the actual process of language acquisition…which is not through grammar drills). As a language learner I understand the angst of wanting to communicate but still making mistakes and being afraid I‘m being judged for them. 4mo

GingerAntics @Sace she does touch on this a TINY bit toward the end (in that we shouldn‘t judge language learners for making mistakes), but she also addresses that not all languages have the semicolon which was certainly news to me. 4mo

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GingerAntics

Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark | Cecelia Watson