Oh this makes me so very happy! Save the Words!

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Everyone at work uses the phrase "as per" and it kind of drives me crazy because I've always thought it's supposed to be just "per". A little bit of googling has brought be no help whatsoever, since most of the sites I saw weren't arguing the grammatical correctness of the phrase, but rather how stuffy or archaic it sounds. Is "as per" acceptable ( Read more... )

Brilliant.

May not be work appropriate:

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This is something I've been musing about lately, and I think it's enough about language to fit well here. For lack of a better term, I'll call it an exercise in theoretical xenolinguistics. I've considered various implications, but I'm going to write about just one here, mostly because I've given it the most thought and developed it the most in ( Read more... )

I'm letting this community go. Does anybody want it? Reply here. If nobody wants it, I'll likely delete it, because I don't know how else to get it off my list.

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Not like I'm a total dork or anything.

I am very perturbed by a question I have never thought I would have a problem. I bought some books recently. When relating this purchase to a friend, should I say "These books were bought" or "These books are bought"? I think the latter is correct for I am still alive. Is my reasoning correct?

There's about 40 or so words and a similar amount of names that I have fallen in love with in every sense of the word (no pun intended :-P)

( If this sounds like you as well, please look behind the cut :-) )