A Poor Choice of Words
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WASHINGTON -- Few electoral races have wandered so far into sitcom territory as the Senate contest in Virginia. In recent weeks the battle between Republican incumbent George Allen and Democratic challenger James Webb has heated up considerably while the men go toe-to-toe -- or slur-to-slur,...
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Perhaps prudent investors should pass on this one.
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A few shortcomings were left unsaid, while one was simply phrased poorly.
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Doctors are warned that ambiguous abbreviations in medical notes are putting patients' lives at risk.
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Spam makes sense. Sure, most of it reads like filthy gibberish. But the authors of this dreck are not semi-literate perverts. They're cool, rational business folk who have found a sleazy but effective way to make a buck.
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The accent betrays his days as a banker in New York. The subject of his opening comments-the possibilities on trade, South Asiaâs poor record on human development despite its rich human potential, etc sounds almost like Manmohan Singh.
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A few of you have told me I did a disservice to readers by failing to discuss callable certificates of deposit, including their pitfalls, in a recent column mentioning brokerage CDs.
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What's in a word? Maybe more than you think.
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Tycho:  It's the sort of pun that will only work in American English, probably.  Also, I think it increases the chance that I will be stabbed at some point.  I think I would hate that.ThreeSpeech has always made me slightly uncomfortable.  This, from their mission statement, is why:
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Following is a summary of recommendations The Register-Guard has made to voters for the Nov. 2 general election. The editors are fallible human beings who stand an average chance of being wrong.
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Many young people are throwing off their generationâs reputation for slovenly language, and taking up the gauntlet for good grammar.
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In the US, we hasten to add The truly repulsive "w00t" has been crowned Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2007 - based on "thousands" of votes from visitors to the dictionary's website.â¦
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That's not an interjection from the reporter. The exclamation "w00t" was chosen by Merriam-Webster's online users as 2007's Word of the Year.
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All is not quiet on the speech front.
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It seems preposterous even to type the following sentence: The television version of âGossip Girlâ on CW tonight does not quite live up to the novels.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. The most asked for definition on Merriam-Webster&#39;s Web site is for a word that&#39;s not even in the dictionary.
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Tycho:  Despite what the Mr. Period comics might imply, I think of grammar as somewhat tyrannical, and believe that an obsession with the mechanical perfection of language is at odds with actual communication.  At the same time, I know (generally) how things should be arranged, and so non-standard uses deliver naughty thrills.  There are floating syllables in the recent Twisp & Catsby thing that can only be resolved by a very specific reading, and they project from the phrases in a suggestive way.  I even like trade names:  words that evoke fierce, yet sensitive gladiators or spry androids.