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Professorial Musings: Our Oxymoronic Language When I looked at the dictionary definition for asyndeton, though, the oxymoronic family tree for this word began to make sense. M-W defines the word as an ... 2.
Professorial Musings: Our Oxymoronic Language ... he'll ask a question like "How would you define intelligence? ... Dictionary gobbledygook aside, what we have here is an oxymoronic word--a word that ... 3.
Professorial Musings: Are You Phobophobic? I laughed out loud, you are so wity. And PLEASE tell me how you got a paper cut on your eyeball, the curiousity is killing me! My phobias are of heights. ... 4.
Professorial Musings: One Space after Closing Punctuation. Period. Is it any wonder my students complain that their other English teacher did things differently? Bottom line: One space after closing punctuation. Period. ... 5.
Professorial Musings: Are You Phobophobic? I also have a phobia of drowning, however I own a pool and swim all the time. My phobia is mainly just regarding drowning in the ocean or anywhere there is ... 6.
Professorial Musings: One Space after Closing Punctuation. Period. What came to mind immediately was when the post office announced that spacing and punctuation were no longer needed on addresses. LOL! ... 7.
Professorial Musings: To Boldly Split What No One Has Split Before... Oct 25, 2007 ... The problem is that the grammar we have such a love/hate relationship with ... In to boldly go, boldly receives the emphasis--since it is an ... 8.
Professorial Musings: One Space after Closing Punctuation. Period. I deal with MLA format last because although the other formats require one ... I tell my students that using two spaces after a period tags them as "old." ... 9.
Professorial Musings: One Space after Closing Punctuation. Period. And when you start messing with their spaces after punctuation, well, you have a potential mutiny on your hands. Yes, they're right. ... 10.
Professorial Musings: One Space after Closing Punctuation. Period. The rule USED to be two spaces after a colon, a period, ... Are you still putting two spaces after periods, exclamation points, question marks and colons? ... |
