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Frances’ personality tends towards the endearingly insane. Her hugs frequently turn into kidney punches. Her e-mails usually consist only of “asdfsjdafhsjdkffsdkj.” She uses “heh” as an noun, verb and adjective. She inpires borderline-obsessive behavior from men of all types, including men she doesn’t know who climb into her bed “because I haven’t cuddled with anyone in a while...
...Wait, that’s not how you spell [insert noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, article or ‘boo-ya’ here...
...punditocracy endlessly parses the Vietnam analogy, "quagmire" has become the noun du jour. The clamor of doubt, inevitably, is amplified among the allies. A commentator in Pakistan's Dawn, for example, wondered whether President Bush's campaign was getting "bogged down in indefinition...
...flutes on the song Whenever, Wherever). "I knew I could write songs in English," says Shakira. "I just had to get over the fear." In general, she says she finds English to be less accommodating than Espanol. "Spanish syntax is more flexible--I can put a verb before a noun any time I need to. English is more rigid," she says. There is an aspect of her new songwriting language that she finds useful: "The great thing about composing in English is that with three words you can make a more direct statement." As an example, Shakira leans back...
...doesn't serve the medium to continue to associate itself so strongly with a childish, comedic history. When a casual reader encounters the word "comix" for the first time they are forced to spend a moment considering that the medium has evolved to the point where even the noun to describe it has changed...