Get lit(erary): Why writing drunk could save your grade
Ameena Golding/Staff
While I’m not suggesting that you get drunk to write all of your essays, the research I’ve done on this topic seems to show that it’s not such a bad idea.
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Unleashing my evil editor spirit
Upholding grammatical conventions doesn’t really matter when it comes to our everyday speech. Personally, I get more satisfaction from people mistakenly attempting to look superior by misusing them or incorrectly correcting others.
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Pun-hit wonder
The most difficult, yet rewarding task involved in being a copy editor is surprisingly not copy editing.
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Who gives a [email protected]#$ about an Oxford comma
The hardest part of learning another language isn’t memorizing new words for different concepts, but learning the often strange and confusing syntax of a new language
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Where linguistics and copy editing collide
I’ve always been struck by how odd language is — how meaningless combinations of speech sounds can be strung together in meaningful ways to somehow create an infinite possibility of phrases.
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Soggy, slimy and squeamish
Sometimes when I’m waiting for an appointment, trying to waste five minutes or attempting to annoy my friends and family, I come up with the most gross-sounding sentences that I can possibly think up. Linguists have attempted to pin down what it is that makes certain words sound so unappealing to us.
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Why I ‘amn’t’ a prescriptivist
Before my first linguistics class, I felt an immense frustration at the smallest of grammatical errors. As I began taking more and more courses in the subject that would end up becoming my major, I saw my relationship to grammar transform.
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