When taking Spock to see the spores, Leila comments, "It's not much further." having been beaten about the head severely on the difference between "further" and "farther," I believe I can say with some trembling confidence that she should say, "it's not much farther." "Further" means "to a greater extent or degree" whereas "farther" means "to a greater distance." (I know this is really picky, but hey, that's my business.)
Phil FarrandTags: funny grammar-humor star-trek geek pick nit nitpick tos trekker trekkie
#Twitter: proudly promoting ghastly grammar and silly misspelling since 2006.
E.A. BucchianeriTags: humor funny spelling satirical grammar-humor grammar social-media twitter twitter-quotes misspelling social-media-networks
Those spineless types who talk about abolishing the apostrophe are missing the point.
Lynne TrussTags: grammar-humor
And that was when I said 'Henry, the placement of the comma depends on whether 'I ate grandmother' or 'I ate, grandmother'.
Mia CastileTags: humor grammar-humor
I decided quickly that committing crimes against grammar was a hard limit for me.
Sophie MorganTags: bdsm grammar-humor grammar
I might not use capital letters. But I would definitely use an apostrophe…and probably a period. I’m a huge fan of punctuation.
Rainbow RowellTags: letters grammar-humor grammar eleanor-and-park
Although I don't use it nearly so much anymore, I've decided, five years down the line, that Mr. Treadstone's verdict on 'kind of' was kind of unjust. Obviously, this phrase can be redundant or reductive, or just plain stupid in some sentences, but not in all sentences. I wouldn't, for example, use a sentence like 'Antarctica is kind of cold', or 'Hitler was kind of evil'. But sometimes, things aren't black and white. And sometimes 'kind of' expresses this better than any other phrase. For example, when I tell you that my mother was kind of peculiar, I can think of no better way of putting this.
Gavin ExtenceTags: grammar-humor grammar kind-of
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