Comments for August Sun Projects

Comment on Common mistake #1: You’re your own worst enemy by Craig

Craig — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:45:11 +0000

I hope that the people that need help here take you’re advice here. Nice blog. Rather jealous that your based in Cape Town. Some people have all the fun.
Cheers

Comment on Common mistake #1: You’re your own worst enemy by Gray Kane

Gray Kane — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:55:58 +0000

The possessive apostrophe is on its way out of the English language. As a composition teacher, I keep teaching it, but I often find it omitted not only from my students’ papers and online texts, but also from billboards hovering over US highways.

Hard-copy publishers repeatedly demonstrate lower editing standards, so even if print practices somehow still set the standard, less and less is there a standard within print to govern practices outside of it.

We can prescribe grammar all we want, but descriptively, we have to admit that language changes even when we don’t want it to.

Nonetheless, I appreciate your noble efforts.

Comment on Common mistake #1: You’re your own worst enemy by Gavin

Gavin — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:28:55 +0000

Strongbad had some songs about grammar and spelling. This one was:
“Y O U R”, “Y O U apostrophe R E”
They’re as different as night and day
Don’t you think that night and day are different
what’s wrong with you

Ooh, even better, a link with an mp3:
http://www.lionking.org/~hekima/thestick/grammar.html

Comment on Common mistake #1: You’re your own worst enemy by Deon Erasmus

Deon Erasmus — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:25:18 +0000

Lookit http://www.eatsshootsandleaves.com/ESLquiz.html for a little apostrophe game. Apostrophe abuse is my favourite pet hate

Comment on Bolton, busted. And on Twitter too. by matthewbuckland.com » The Bolton Deventer Twitter experiment

matthewbuckland.com » The Bolton Deventer Twitter experiment — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:42:22 +0000

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Comment on Bolton, busted. And on Twitter too. by Lester Hein

Lester Hein — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:24:52 +0000

Lol, I was in the room when Bolton ‘died.’ I should be declared a national monument – vernon koekemoer said so

Comment on Bolton, busted. And on Twitter too. by Charl van Niekerk

Charl van Niekerk — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:49:16 +0000

No ways that’s a technical hickup. Twitter has literally hundreds of messages passing through their servers every 10 seconds, what’s the chances? Matthew, sorry man you got pwned.

Comment on Bolton, busted. And on Twitter too. by Simone Puterman

Simone Puterman — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:07:45 +0000

@Marc: yes, an analysis of the times shows that @boltondeventer tweets happened just before or after Matt’s tweets…

But conclusive proof: http://tweetscan.com/index.php?s=conferensie&u=

Matt, you’re a drama student – drama runs in your blood – but you’re not fooling me on this one, despite your telephonic protestations that twitter had a technical hiccough and it’s not you!

Comment on Bolton, busted. And on Twitter too. by Marc

Marc — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:32:10 +0000

Nice one. I have been wondering about this for a couple of days, because every time Matt would post a tweet, about 2 mins later, so would Bolton. Well done on the breakthrough…now to see if he comes clean

Comment on Bolton, busted. And on Twitter too. by The Wild Frontier at The Times » Blog Archive » Bolton Deventer outed at last!!!

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:14:38 +0000

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