Linguistic Obsession

"Want to see smoke come out of my ears, just show me a misplaced apostrophe or an improperly used transitive verb." I didn't write that, but I'll be nice and not edit the wonky use of commas by my generous host.

Monday, January 31, 2005

Possessives of words ending in 's'

If you're not sure if my name should be Sauers' or Sauers's when possessive this Wikipedia page discusses the issues.

via Neil Gaiman

Friday, January 28, 2005

Dilbert part III

The dongle saga continues.

Thursday, January 27, 2005

Dilbert part II

And here's the columnist's response

Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Fortune cookie

I received the following fortune the other day:

Today it's up to you to
created the peasefulness
you long for.

Dilbert takes on language

Just what should you do when someone misuses the word dongle?