Wednesday, December 10, 2008

As a Service to Anyone Who Writes Sentences

Copyblogger presents The Inigo Montoya Guide to 27 Commonly Misused Words.

I'm certainly guilty of misusing "afterwards" and "towards," and probably more. I also find myself rewriting e-mails to avoid "hopefully" once or twice a week.
Your Hornswoggler is Andrew Wheeler Released into the wild 12/10/2008 09:28:00 AM
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3 comments:

Robert Hutchinson said...

Hopefully, a list such as this is mostly unique in its nitpickery on some of these items. Language, it changes.

Wed Dec 10, 07:36:00 PM 2008
Andrew Wheeler said...

Robert: Yes, language does change -- but it's in the interests of all language-users to do their bit to keep it from changing in the direction of being less precise and more confusing.

Every time someone uses "less" to describe a countable item, the Sad Baby Jesus cries.

Thu Dec 11, 08:49:00 AM 2008
Robert Hutchinson said...

Well, Sad Baby Jesus *would* do that.

Thu Dec 11, 08:51:00 PM 2008

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