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Spam poetics

The New Neo Posted on February 3, 2006 by neoJuly 25, 2009

I sometimes think that whoever writes spam has a flair for the poetic. Consider the following, which I received today: Miss Happiness Umukoro Abidjan-Cote D’Ivoire Dear love, CONFIDENTIAL. I am Miss Happiness Umukoro. the only Daughter of Late Former Director … Continue reading →

Posted in Language and grammar | 7 Replies

Mispronunciation by accident or by design

The New Neo Posted on January 9, 2006 by neoJuly 25, 2009

As a follow-up to my nu-ku-lar post, see this from Dean Esmay, on mispronouncing words as a sign of intelligence. Dean is speaking especially of words a person has only read rather than heard–certainly not the case for Bush and … Continue reading →

Posted in Language and grammar | 31 Replies

Deconstructing “nukular”

The New Neo Posted on January 7, 2006 by neoJuly 25, 2009

At his ever-interesting blog Done With Mirrors, Callimachus offers the definitive explanation of why George W. Bush says “nukular” for “nuclear,” (as opposed to GW’s own father, who pronounces the word conventionally). Apparently, GW is just following precedent for many … Continue reading →

Posted in Language and grammar | 34 Replies

Lies and the lying liars who hear them

The New Neo Posted on January 6, 2006 by neoJuly 25, 2009

It’s said all the time on the left, and even by many liberals: Bush lied. Bush lied through his teeth, especially about WMDs in Saddam’s Iraq. I don’t even have to provide the links; we all know what a recurrent … Continue reading →

Posted in Language and grammar | 149 Replies

Maybe we should test the Globe on the meaning of the word “alleged”

The New Neo Posted on November 26, 2005 by neoAugust 28, 2009

Vermont English teacher Bret Chenkin has a way with words. This Boston Globe article, headlined “Teacher under investigation for alleged liberalism,” brought back unhappy memories of spending stessed-out high school days preparing for the SAT tests. But they also made … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Language and grammar | 10 Replies

It depends what the meaning of “its” is

The New Neo Posted on November 5, 2005 by neoMay 13, 2009

I try my best to pay attention to grammar and spelling, helped out by the always-handy Spellcheck (shh–don’t tell anyone, but I’m not the world’s best speller, unaided). But as Harriet Miers before me discovered, no doubt to her chagrin, … Continue reading →

Posted in Language and grammar, Literature and writing | 38 Replies

Handy phrases for the American in Paris

The New Neo Posted on November 5, 2005 by neoAugust 28, 2009

Yesterday I was trying to be witty in the comments section, and I was looking for the way to say (and spell) “excuse me” in French. Since I don’t speak French, that meant Googling “handy French phrases translated”, which brought … Continue reading →

Posted in Language and grammar | 5 Replies

Language Arts 101, by Mr. Jaspan

The New Neo Posted on June 28, 2005 by neoAugust 28, 2009

We bloggers do love to pick on journalists. But can you blame us? They so often serve up such tempting food for the picking. Michael Totten has a post about one Andrew Jaspan, who is quoted as saying something so … Continue reading →

Posted in Language and grammar | 7 Replies

Karl Rove: all he needs is an editor and some qualifiers

The New Neo Posted on June 24, 2005 by neoAugust 28, 2009

It’s simple–Karl Rove just needs an editor. Democrats and liberals are in an uproar about some statements Rove made Wednesday at a Manhattan fund-raiser. In case you were on planet Xenon and missed them, here they are: Conservatives saw the … Continue reading →

Posted in Language and grammar, Politics | 36 Replies

Calling a killer a killer

The New Neo Posted on May 11, 2005 by neoAugust 28, 2009

Today, as on so many days in the past, the murderers of the Iraqi people set about to blow a bunch of them to bits, and have succeeded. Sixty is today’s number. The killers must be so very proud. And … Continue reading →

Posted in Iraq, Language and grammar, Terrorism and terrorists | 16 Replies

The language of public life

The New Neo Posted on March 22, 2005 by neoMarch 6, 2011

I was reading Dr. Sanity’s recent post, in which she quotes Fred Siegel from the NY Observer. He describes an encounter with some undergraduate Dean supporters prior to the 2004 primaries thusly: I was taken aback by my conversation with … Continue reading →

Posted in Getting philosophical: life, love, the universe, Language and grammar, Politics | 2 Replies

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