Entries tagged 'english'

• Pattern Flux
  Probably because of the chaotic nature of my speech I tend to not only shift accents from time to time but also shift expressions in my speech as...


• Mathematical Impossibility
  I have today put up not one but two parts for Red Ice First Craft and Polonium Black. Thes...


• Desereted
  One of the things specific to LDS culture and one of the things I forgot about by the time I started doing linguistic studies was an attempt duri...


• Aitches
  Continuing on with the previous topic of accents another thing Ive noticed change in my speech lately is the use of the letter H. Or more spec...


• Accent Drift
  Most people around here pronounce days of the week normally. MonDay FryDay etc. Far less often though a certain accent variant equates it to ...


• List Mess
  Every so often if I need to try and find something Ive written but not sure what document Ive written it in Ill just go through every document...


• Eh?
  Its a common joke that Canadians often use Eh at the end of their sentences and if youre talking with them you should as well to fit in. In r...


• Direct Import from Poland
  I was driving down the street yesterday heading to the west end of the valley and on the side of the street there was a scrolling marquee. I wasn...


• Pronounced
  English is a rather strange language. It is filled with many different language influences and it is full of conflicting grammatical rules. It is ...


• Double Vision
  One of the things that is supposed to be avoided in writing and spellcheckers freak out over all the time is words written twice. The obvious rea...


• w00t!
  Last week MerriamWebster voted w00t as word of the year and assigned it an official definition for their online dictionary. w0...


• Déjà Vowel
  I thought I had talked about this once before but apparently I havent. Also it seems Google isnt indexing anything for the search box Ill loo...


• Interpersonal
  One of the lesser seen problems of Englishs pronouns a problem not as glaring as our lack of a singular genderneutral pronoun is the fact tha...


• Bilingual Illiterate
  Writing Skewed occasionally presents an unusual problem.Skewed takes place in Japan and its characters are with a couple exceptions ...


• Unfamiliar Words
  I didnt have much in the way of spelling mistakes to work with the last couple of days and I didnt want to go back and look for them. The real i...