Minichan

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> Sometimes the Math makes little Cents.

“Sometimes, the math makes little sense.”

Use a comma. The word “math” isn’t capitalized. The word you want is “sense”.

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The Rules of Grammar

"I am almost sure by witness of my ear, but cannot be positive, for I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules. A generation ago I knew the rules---knew them by heart, word for word, though not their meanings---and I still know one of them: the one which says---but never mind, it will come back to me presently."

"Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter, and not the trimmings and shadings of their grammar."

"The Queen's English"
"There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares."

"SPELLING"

"I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing. I have a correspondent whose letters are always a refreshment to me, there is such a breezy unfettered originality about his orthography. He always spells Kow with a large K. Now that is just as good as to spell it with a small one. It is better. It gives the imagination a broader field, a wider scope. It suggests to the mind a grand, vague, impressive new kind of a cow."

"I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more, merely for the reason that when I was a boy there was not a thing I could do creditably except spell according to the book. It was a poor and mean distinction and I early learned to disenjoy it. I suppose that this is because the ability to spell correctly is a talent, not an acquirement. There is some dignity about an acquirement, because it is a product of your own labor. It is wages earned, whereas to be able to do a thing merely by the grace of God and not by your own effort transfers the distinction to our heavenly home---where possibly it is a matter of pride and satisfaction but it leaves you naked and bankrupt."

"I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us."


"...ours is a mongrel language which started with a child's vocabulary of three hundred words, and now consists of two hundred and twenty-five thousand; the whole lot, with the exception of the original and legitimate three hundred, borrowed, stolen, smouched from every unwatched language under the sun, the spelling of each individual word of the lot locating the source of the theft and preserving the memory of the revered crime."

Myths about punctuation

“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made proof-readers.”

Mark Twain, 1893


As has been said from time to time — often while trying to disabuse writers of myths about punctuation — if you’re looking for an example of excellent prose style, simply open up something by Mark Twain. Practically any of his books will do. When in doubt about usage, you’re usually better off reading him than searching through style guides.

Contrary to recent custom, his punctuation wasn’t timid or anemic. He wasn’t afraid to put in a comma or semicolon if it would improve the way a sentence read. Refuting modern literary fashion — and its advocates who insist that punctuation impedes the reader — this is what made his colloquial prose flow over the pages so well.
Mark Twain punctuated for clarity, so his writing doesn’t slow his readers down at all. In fact, they’re moved along effortlessly from sentence to sentence, one paragraph to next… It’s the lack of clarity — often owing to a lack of adequate punctuation — that stops a reader in mid sentence. Nor was he afraid of breaking the rules of punctuation.

And it doesn’t matter in the least that he was born in the nineteenth century; his writing is timeless. How many other authors make the bestseller list a century after their deaths? Since his day, some writers might have occasionally written as well as he did, but I’m hard-pressed to think of any whose style has been an improvement upon his.

Nevertheless, he had running battles with proofreaders and copy editors throughout his career. (In the interests of full disclosure, I admit to having served in both capacities; although I was never a vigilante about it. And as a writer, I’m actually in full sympathy with Twain on this topic.)

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@previous (A)
Nobody gives a fuck about Twain and his thoughts. Nor do we give a fuck about yours.

@1,074,414 (A)
Are you typing English, or are your fingers farting on your keyboard?

@OPenisbreath
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itt, syntax is using 2 uids so far.

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You can use your real identity, or you can use phone numbers for something like WhatsApp, and pseudonyms for something like Instagram. But in any of those you're not just sharing and consuming content, you are also building relationships with people and building an understanding of people.
~Mark Zuckerberg


The Western world is having an identity crisis.
~Marianne Williamson

If you're always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.
~Mark Zuckerberg

Countless religious innovators over the years have played the game of establishing an identity for themselves by accentuating their otherness.
~Malcolm Gladwell

Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how people create their individual looks and identity and later change it.
~Maria Sharapova

It's very important for a brand to have an identity through the years, but it's very important as well to evolve because times change so fast.
~Donatella Versace

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More illegible gibberish.

Here we see the good budgie visiting a lonely prisoner

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