Looking for the perfect Christmas gift for a certain someone -- one who regularly butchers the proper uses of "fewer" and "less"? These Grammar Grumble mugs will be right up your alley....
H/t to Rachael Bradbury.
Read the tea leaves.
So much space, you could drive a truck through it.
Want your stakeholders to think you're old-fashioned? Use two spaces.
At Corpowrite Asia, we spend a lot of time deleting spaces -- specifically, the second space after a period, question mark, exclamation point or colon. As this article points out, using two spaces is as obsolete as floppy disks. (They even both became outdated around the same time.) And the worst part about a business insisting on two spaces in its copy? It makes its brand look outdated, too.
Special thanks to Rachael Bradbury for spotting this one.
Is this literally, or figuratively the best invention ever?
Hey Google Chrome users: You can now download an extension that changes the word "literally" to "figuratively" on the websites you visit, since 99% of the time that the former is used, the latter is what is really meant.
For instance, a quick Google News search for 'literally' turns up the following headlines, modified by the browser extension to a state of unintentional accuracy:
- The 2014 MTV Movie Awards Were Figuratively on Fire
- 10 Things You Figuratively Do Not Have Time For
- Momentum Is Figuratively the Next Starting Pitcher for LSU
The internet is awesome.