tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276941897435306366.post8648033406877685565..comments2023-11-20T14:10:49.548-06:00Comments on A Mighty Good Yarn: Best of Blog Blackout ExcusesElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13063944654826642334noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276941897435306366.post-59581687546586687402009-07-20T07:22:38.732-06:002009-07-20T07:22:38.732-06:00Follow the first link in the post. It will take yo...Follow the first link in the post. It will take you to all the lists.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13063944654826642334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276941897435306366.post-2610066879975569292009-07-19T11:56:53.166-06:002009-07-19T11:56:53.166-06:00Reading more is a good excuse for putting anything...Reading more is a good excuse for putting anything off, in my opinion. :)<br /><br />Where can we find this MLA list? I found a couple of blog mentions about it, but is it published anywhere online? Thanks!Clumsy Knitterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17447035795621048079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276941897435306366.post-51777772086117656772009-07-19T06:09:49.288-06:002009-07-19T06:09:49.288-06:00Re: grammatical "error". If it was good...Re: grammatical "error". If it was good enough for Shakespeare & the King James Bible, it's good enough for us.<br /><br />Seriously: the "rules" that high school English teachers attempt to inculcate into their students are, at root, arbitrary. A far saner strategy, in my opinion (and that of many linguists), is to look at how language is used by writers who are widely admired for their use of language actually use the language.<br /><br />So: Shakespeare & the KVJ commit this grammatical "error" all the time. Further detail available at <a href="http://www.languagelog.com/" rel="nofollow">Language Log</a> -- specifically <a href="http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002748.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>, <a href="http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002742.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>, and <a href="http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002740.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>, among other places.Richard Cobbehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14142695225678191312noreply@blogger.com