Mastodawn

Would you board the USS Linguistic Prescriptivism?

Grammar, the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the USS Linguistic Prescriptivism. Its ongoing mission: to diagram strange new sentences; to seek out split infinitives and Oxford commas; to correct boldly what no grammarian has corrected before!

#startrek #meme #humor #grammar #prescriptivism #linguistics

ƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞ 1d ago

What are "eggcorns"?
(Hint: they're not folk etymologies.)

#English #language #etymology #error #grammar #misheard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F12LSAbos7A

Philosophics 1d ago

Why talk and reason are unlikely to resolve deep political divides.
👉 https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/18/ontological-grammars-of-abortion/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

I discuss ontological grammar and incommensurability using abortion as a discussion point. This 10-minute video provides meta and detail for my essay, Grammatical Failure.
✍️ https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18521457

#philosophy #politics #ontology #grammar #commensurability #video #essay #foucault #bourdieu ##popper #paradox #tolerance #morals #abortion #healthcare #debate #communication #epistemology

Profound English 1d ago

When to use "were" instead of "was" after I/he/she/it - Easy English Grammar.
#english #writing #grammar #education #bildung

Bo Morgan 3d ago

I'd like a local AI model that checks and warns me about my incorrect usage of "their" or "they're" in my Evolution emails.

#evolution #email #grammar #localai

The Whore of Blahbylon 4d ago

How punny.

#grammar #language #English #words #memes #humour #puns

Andrew Shields 5d ago

Fowler’s “that/which” distinction and the establishment of a linguistic rule. #111Words #HWFowler #RelativePronouns #ThatWhich #BenYagoda #TheNewYorker #Linguistics #Grammar #Rules https://111-words.ghost.io/fowlers-that-which-distinction-and-the-establishment-of-a-linguistic-rule/

Fowler’s “that/which” distinction and the establishment of a linguistic rule

In "A Dictionary of Modern English Usage" (1926), H. W. Fowler proposed a distinction between relative pronouns: "If writers would agree to regard 'that' as the defining relative pronoun, & 'which' as the non-defining, there would be much gain both in lucidity & in ease." As Ben Yagoda observes in a recent

111 Words

IndieAuthors.Social News 5d ago

7 Golden Rules for Colon Usage

Matthew Adams breaks down seven important colon usage rules, from handling lists to using in titles and more.
The post 7 Golden Rules for Colon Usage appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/golden-rules-for-colon-usage

#Grammar #WriteBetterFiction #WriteBetterNonfiction #grammar #GrammarRules