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...received a 63 percent job approval rating. After a bitter and divisive election, many have argued that Bush is succeeding in his mission to reach across partisan divides and create a united, consensus-based government. Unfortunately, this view is even more flawed than the 43rd president’s grammar...
...Ghetto Bounce” (“If you’re ghetto and you know it bounce bounce”) out of my head. What’s up with nursery rhyme in hip-hop choruses? Nelly’s “Country Grammar (Hot Shit).” “That’s Cool,” the new single by Silkk the Shocker and Trina, reminds me of a raunchier version of Positive K’s “I Got A Man”—I think it?...
...Little Pony (this reference itself probably dates me), I was fascinated by everything about this magical time, especially the incredible capacities of those living in it. At four years old, a lisping munchkin with deep-blue saucer-eyes had almost fully intuited the myriad arcane, inexplicable rules of English grammar, and was constructing extensive stream-of-consciousness narratives on a wide range of topics from proper dining etiquette for tropical fish to the telos of motherhood. Her speech was even peppered with endearing neologisms applicable to her world (like "encenter" meaning "ready for the new day," a word which...
...Just Grammar Police...
...fact, we would do well to realize that romantic love itself is a form of fiction. It was the invention of the troubadour poets of the 12th and 13th centuries - they were the Beatles of the Middle Ages - who basically coined the grammar and syntax of romantic love. It is from them that we derive so many of our romantic assumptions about love - that love involves suffering and anguish, that there is love at first sight, that absence makes the heart grow fonder, that a grand passion is life's great ambition and that finally, as John Lennon said...