Spelin Erurs- August 13, 2008 Another fine LOLcat from I Can Has Cheezburger.http://theslot.blogspot.com/2008/08/spelin-erurs.html Are You the Bestest- August 11, 2008 To celebrate the Oct. 15 release of her book "Things That Make Us Sic," Martha Brockenbrough is running a contest to find the best copy editor in the United States.If you're wondering just how one would measure such a thing, especially given how hard it is to simply find a competent person to fill an opening (remember when we had "openings" to "fill"), well, so am I, but Martha has her ways. Apparently there's a find-the-errors test, and if you pass that you get to write a little something....http://theslot.blogspot.com/2008/08/are-you-bestest.html Web Two-Point-Whatever-We're-at-Now- August 7, 2008 This will be review for a lot of people, but I tried to round up the various forms my language blogging now takes. I've also cleaned some cobwebs off the home page of The Slot.http://theslot.blogspot.com/2008/08/web-two-point-whatever-were-at-now.html Rules Grammar Change- August 5, 2008 This just in (well, over the weekend) from Onion Radio News.http://theslot.blogspot.com/2008/08/rules-grammar-change.html Blogrolling in Our Time- August 5, 2008 Boy, do I miss Spy magazine. But anyway ...In the Web tradition of pointing readers where they should be pointed, competition be damned, the New York Times' usage site points people to The Slot. And I return the favor. This is a nicely done page.http://theslot.blogspot.com/2008/08/blogrolling-in-our-time.html Hi, Tech!- August 4, 2008 Now that I've invited you to join the cause on Facebook, allow me to introduce The Slot on Twitter. It's taken me a while to warm to the Twitter concept, even though it's basically like my favorite part of Facebook, the status update, writ large.But this seems to be what all the kids are doing, and so -- let's call it an experiment -- I've decided to do my tweet-tweet-tweeting not about the fact that I'm at Nationals Park or I can't wait for "Mad Men" to start, but rather about usage-related...http://theslot.blogspot.com/2008/08/hi-tech.html It's Not Scrabulous, but ...- August 2, 2008 If you're on Facebook, you can sign up as a "fan."http://theslot.blogspot.com/2008/08/its-not-scrabulous-but.html And Don't Call Me on My Cell- August 1, 2008 At left is a laptop. At right is a laptop computer. Go ahead and abbrev. away, go ahead and noun the darn adjective, go ahead and save your precious energy, in conversation, or in a Best Buy ad, or in a headline, or on second reference. All that is perfectly fine. Even I do it. But style and decorum dictate that you supply the actual noun at least once if you're writing anything even moderately formal for a general audience.http://theslot.blogspot.com/2008/07/and-dont-call-me-on-my-cell.html |