How to Do Things with Words
…and why it matters. Two unrelated links:
meg on the meaning of the phrase “WT,” and how those who use it might benefit from learning to diagram sentences.
And the Globe and Mail on the $2.13 million comma. (Via scribblingwoman.)
9 November 2006, 12.33 pm
PLAYBOY: Do you take Michael Jackson seriously as a songwriter?
PAUL: No, I don’t particularly admire him as a writer, because he hasn’t
done much. I admire Stevie Wonder more. And Stephen Sondheim. Probably
one of the best.