"You're reading a post in the desert and you come across an em dash..."
"What's an em dash?"
"You know a long hyphen?"
"Yeah."
"Same thing."
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@brotundspiele @kitnaht
Grammar Correction: Too, to and two are not interchangeable.
Correct usage: He was too old, too drunk and too sick to drive two blocks to the store. Two dollars is too much to pay.
I fully agree with you and #FuckCars
I have a question, Mastodonians!
In English, city night be referenced using the preposition "of", and the first letter of the city doesn't affect the preposition.
- city of Ottawa
- city of Kitchener
But in French the preposition gets contracted if the first letter is a vowel (or sometimes an "h"?):
- ville d'Ottawa
- ville de Kitchener
What are examples in other languages (that use the Latin alphabet) that have the behaviour that written French does?
How to Use Em Dashes (—), En Dashes (–) , and Hyphens (-) | Merriam-Webster
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/em-dash-en-dash-how-to-use
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43497719
What's the equivalent of a finger on a cat's paw? Pawnger? As in, "I asked Chewy not to sit on the keyboard and he stuck two pawngers up at me."
https://www.alojapan.com/1224866/in-need-of-rice-and-some-japanese-words-that-describe-necessity/ In need of rice and some Japanese words that describe necessity #grammar #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #JLPTN3 #JlptN4 #news #nihongo #rice #vocabulary This fall, excitement for the arrival of 新米 (shinmai, the new rice crop of the year) is greater than usual. The lingering effect of last year’s 不作 (fusaku, poor harvest) hit hard in August when rice stock is usually at the lowest level every year. 日本人の食生活に、 お米は必要不可欠です (Nihonjin no…
In 1803, Johan Werfel published a grammar of Danish that was supposedly "for women". It was also both "practical and theoretical".
I digitized the book for the @internetarchive and wrote something about the book for #Lingoblog [In Danish]. I'll try to summarize the most interesting points here! I was curious about what it meant that it was "for women" (besides a general interest in reading old grammar books) 
https://www.lingoblog.dk/en-sexistisk-grammatik-dansk-grammatik-for-kvinder-anno-1803/
#linguistics #grammar #sexism #women
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antisemitism vs. anti-Semitism
https://www.wordorigins.org/harmless-drudge/antisemitism-vs-anti-semitism
The beauty of compounding in German, but not fully executed graphically, as usual in product names.
Lebensmittelmottenfallendreieck
life+s+means+moth+n+trap+n+three+angle
Triangular food moth trap
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2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu42JDczI0w "The Candidate #1 | Crazy Grammar" #english #France #grammar
Another reason why Title Case (the most backward, confusing, inconsistent & easy to get wrong approach to capitalising headings) needs to be consigned to the rubbish bin. I thought that the semiconductor company Pragmatic had a stance against AI for a sec (sorry
@monkchips ;-))
PS Monki Gras is awesome! https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2025/03/13/monki-gras-2025-its-going-to-be-fire-sustainable-open-source-and-pragmatic-takes-on-ai/
Not quite #Grammar but in that area.
Just heard a "grammar expert" interviewed on CBC suggest that "fewer than 53 pounds" was preferred, because 53 is countable.
Noooo...
Weight is a measurement, with uncertainty, that is not restricted to natural numbers. That pig might be 53.13±0.05 pounds. "Less than" should be the correct usage.
Tagging @grammargirl! What do you think? Do some measurements fall into a grey area because we often express them in nice, round umbers (like our weight)?
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Here’s an English language infelicity showing up with increasing frequency on the web. I assume its origin is in a transliteration from some other language, but I don’t know what language drops the subject of an infinitive phrase in this way.
From an article about a new Bluetooth / Wi-Fi backdoor in a widely used wireless chip:
“Our findings would allow to fully take control over the ESP32 chips...”
(he, him, his) 
#FBPE 
