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Awesome Childhood Spelling

Uhh…where it says “looked” read “lopped”. lol This is based on the original tweet you see up there by Twitter user @Sal_Perez4 (see the original tweet here).

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Older forms of English kept Latin’s gender-specific suffixes -tor and -trix;  tor is for men and trix is for women. So a male pilot is an aviator, a female pilot is an aviatrix. A male fighter is a gladiator, a female fighter is a gladiatrix.

This contrasts with the modern system, where tor is for both men and women, and trix are for kids.

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Homophones, Weakly, a blog masterminded by Bruce Worden

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Is It ‘Grey’ or ‘Gray’

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From Oxford Living Dictionaries:

(Posted on the English-is-Weird side blog of @shycatdreaming )

dragon!Roderick: *fluffed up to look twice his size while he crouches over Gwill*

Adeline: I’m afraid to ask but … what are you doing?

dragon!Roderick: I’m trying to oust Bog from his spot as Brooding Male Lead in this fanfiction

Adeline: … you know that isn’t what they mean by–

dragon!Roderick: Addy, I know and I am hilarious

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I Should Stop Speaking English

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Part of the problem of English is that the language will absorb descriptors as proper names, and then act all confused when others call them out on it.

I found this thing on Facebook… and I fell down the Humans Are Weird hole yet again. 😂(I first did before I even started my blog - Pinterest is sooo full of these posts! And I keep falling down it from time to time, when I discover something new)

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I just found out that botanically, bananas are berries.

I don’t know what to do with this information.

🍌🍓🤔

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I dream of the day when I won’t have to look at this fucking chart….

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From the Vsauce side channel DONG

Creator: Micheal Stevens

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The Amazing English Language

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Does your reader need to breath?

Are you moving from one idea to another in a sentence? If you were talking, you’d pause to show this.

Comma.

Are you moving from one big idea to another?

Period.

Somewhere between a period (one complete thought) and a comma (a related thought, but you’d like to give it room)?

Semi-colon.

TIP TOP?

Paragraph break.

Pace yourself. Let yourself breath.

And if the scene or character ISN’T breathing? If something is crazy, a character is in a rush, everything in confusing?

If you’re not using a totally formal style, break punctuation rules to create the mood.

If it’s the opposite, everything is stalled, spread stuff out. Have single word sentences, single word paragraphs.

Your reader will go through your story as fast as there is white space. You’re the director.

Make them breath intelligently.

THERE MUST BE A PARAGRAPH BREAK EVERY TIME A NEW CHARACTER SPEAKS

THIS IS NOT OPTIONAL

NO ONE WANTS TO READ ONE BIG BLOCK OF TEXT JESUS CHRIST

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Question: Why call English the “Bastard Child of Europe?”

Wikipedia provides details

(Second answer: Invasions. Lots of invasions)

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proper punctuation can make the difference between a sentence that’s well-written and a sentence that’s, well, written.

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“chuffed doesnt mean what you think it means”

it means exactly what i think it means its just some stupid word that literally has two definitions that mean the opposite thing

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Man I hate it when people use the pronoun “you” as a singular pronoun in an informal setting. “You” is plural, unless thou dost speak to an unfamiliar person. The correct singular second person pronoun is “thou” in most cases. Grammar never changes. Pronouns must always stay one way until the end of time. Learn thy proper English. *sigh* Kids these days.