Grammar Girl

@grammargirl
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Mignon Fogarty. Podcaster. New York Times bestselling author. Quick and Dirty Tips founder. Bad skier. she/her

#amwriting This week's podcast
#amediting This week's GG newsletter
#amreading Murder by Other Means

Websitehttps://www.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-girl/
Podcasthttps://applepodcasts.com/grammargirl
Newsletterhttps://quickanddirtytips.com/newsletters
Bookshttps://amzn.to/2vJCpu6
Grammar GirlNov 21, 2022
C.C. ChapmanNov 21, 2022

Loved that some students and I spent a good hour today talking about our favorite #books and #movies.

These are the moments I love being a #professor and getting to know my students beyond the classroom.

Grammar GirlNov 21, 2022

If you're wondering whether we call turkeys "turkeys" because they come from Turkey, here's a very old, shaky (but short and nicely referenced) video I did about it. (The short answer is "sort of.")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynKn-zST20A

Why Do We Call It a Turkey?

YouTube
Grammar GirlNov 21, 2022

Darn it! I forgot to post the link where you can vote for one of the three options in Oxford's word-of-the-year poll: "metaverse," "#IStandWith," and "goblin mode." #WOTY2022

Here you go.
https://languages.oup.com/word-of-the-year/2022/

Oxford Word of the Year 2022 | Oxford Languages

For the first time in its history, the Oxford Word of the Year has been chosen by the public. Learn more about the 2022 winner.

Grammar GirlNov 21, 2022
Oxford Languages is opening their word-of-the-year voting to the public! Let them know whether you want “metaverse,” “#IStandWith,” or “goblin mode” for the #WOTY2022.
Grammar GirlNov 21, 2022
KuJoe 💞Nov 14, 2022

So many people are having a bad first experience with Mastodon because they're using the official app which is lacking features, doesn't allow image uploads randomly, has random slowness, and doesn't give you easy access to the two most active feeds where you can find people (Local and Federated).

Please switch to Metatext, Tusky, or Tooot for a better mobile experience (or even use a browser).

Out of the >15k users that joined this week, over 11k are on the official apps.

Grammar GirlNov 21, 2022

1 PM: I'm going to stay up late and catch up on work. Today is the day!

8 PM: It's been dark my entire life. <whimpers off to bed>

Grammar GirlNov 21, 2022
I found myself using the phrase "do the needful" this weekend. It's useful—a much more efficient way of saying "do the thing that needs to be done." #IndianEnglish
Grammar GirlNov 21, 2022
I greatly prefer the interface on the Metatext app for iOS (in part because it’s easy to access my lists), but for those of you who say you’re missing the algorithm, the official Mastodon app seems to have a little bit more of an algorithm feel. There’s a tab that shows posts that are getting a lot of likes, for example.
Grammar GirlNov 20, 2022
Jamie Rose (she/her)Nov 6, 2022

Well, I'm here. I guess I'm part of the Great Twitter Exodus, but tbf I haven't been active on there for over a year because it's been a hellsite for a long time and I don't need the extra anxiety, I have plenty of my own thanks.

Hoping now I've discovered Mastodon it'll have all the great book and word-loving community bits of the birdsite (cos I miss those) but with much, much less of the awful awfulness.

#introductions #BookLover #WritingCommunity

Grammar GirlNov 20, 2022
It was the best of intentions, it was the worst of intentions...