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Daily Archives Wednesday, August 2007

I Scooped Newsweek

Of course, that's the equivalent of saying you beat your grandfather in the 100 metre dash but still…they're just getting around to a cover story on the latest trend in cyberspace, Facebook while my article for CLA's Feliciter on the very same topic came out a couple months ago (though it wasn't a cover story either so I guess it's really a tie in some ways.)

Posted 22 August 2007 § Internet § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

When 'They' Became 'Him'

We had this discussion on my blog once already.  But anyhow, since it's one of my personal grammar crusades, here's another article on the history of using “they/their/them” as the first-person singular instead of the contemporary but much more awkward “he/she” convention.  “…for most of the existence of the English language, ‘they’ was used as […]

Posted 22 August 2007 § Main Page § Randomness ‡ Comments (2) °