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Montag, 08. März 2010He kicked the cupboard angrily. “Take this for not containing a knife!”
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Word of the Day: clabrevication
Donnerstag, 25. Februar 2010A blend of clarification and abbreviation. Describes the process of rewriting part of a text such that it becomes both more understandable and shorter, possibly even without losing information. Clabrevication is widely considered the supreme discipline of copy editing, although it has been argued that less depends on the editor’s skills than on the text being written in such a way to allow it.
Nazi Compounds
Montag, 22. Februar 2010| Phrase | # of Google hits (at the time of entering the list) |
|---|---|
| grammar nazi | 188,000 |
| music nazi | 122,000 |
| love nazi | 85,600 |
| food nazi | 75,000 |
| movie nazi | 50,300 |
| porn nazi | 47,100 |
| health nazi | 25,100 |
| republican nazi | 19,000 |
| code nazi | 13,000 |
| moral nazi | 11,800 |
| house nazi | 8,140 |
| democrat nazi | 7,320 |
| Jesus nazi | 5,100 |
| dance nazi | 4,400 |
| cleaning nazi | 4,050 |
| underwear nazi | 3,950 |
| peace nazi | 3,760 |
| bible nazi | 3,000 |
| political correctness nazi | 2,780 |
| math nazi | 2,680 |
| health insurance nazi | 2,530 |
| relevance nazi | 252 |
| linguistics nazi | 224 |
| encapsulation nazi | 4 |
Ⅰ plan to extend this list, send me your ideas!
The Indefinite Determiner ‘this’
Mittwoch, 03. Februar 2010So this random guy walks up to my table, sits down and starts telling a story out of the blue. Ⅰ have no idea what he is talking about or who he is referring to when he begins, “So this random guy walks up to my table, sits down and starts telling a story out of the blue. Ⅰ have no idea what he is talking about or who he is referring to when he begins, “So this random guy walks up to my table, sits down and starts telling a story out of the blue. Ⅰ have no idea what he is talking about or who he is referring to when he begins, “So this random guy walks up to my table, sits down and starts telling a story out of the blue. Ⅰ have no idea what he is talking about or who he is referring to when he begins, “So this random guy walks up to my table, sits down and starts telling a story out of the blue. Ⅰ have no idea what he is talking about or who he is referring to when he begins…
The Plan
Sonntag, 31. Januar 2010A: Well, Harold, I’m not sure whether Ⅰ understand your plan completely, but unless I’m very much mistaken, it involves my death, right?
B: Yes, that is correct.
A: Well, Ⅰ don’t want that.
B: You don’t… oh, yeah. Sure. That kinda… should have been obvious.
A: No problem.
B: No, really, Ⅰ should have…
A: It’s okay, Harold. We do have to think in all possible ways.
B: Yeah. … But that one plan is out, then?
A: It is.
Graph Jokes
Sonntag, 24. Januar 2010I’ve been meaning to get this off my chest for a while:
Fragmente (5)
Samstag, 09. Januar 2010Teacher: It’s not wrong, but it’s not standard.
Student: So can we choose to write it this way?
Teacher: If you want me as your enemy…
Fragmente (4)
Sonntag, 03. Januar 2010A stops to tie her shoelaces.
B: Ⅰ thought those were just for show.
A: Yeah, but the show must go on.
Island Constraint Violation of the Day (1)
Sonntag, 20. Dezember 2009That’s the heat you should get out of the kitchen if you can’t stand.
Fragmente (3)
Sonntag, 20. Dezember 2009He was caught red-handed feigning ignorance.