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Friday, December 11, 2009

I didn't know that! Amend VS Emend

From dictionary.com:
"when you amend a text, you change it - usually for the better and when you emend a text, you simply correct the mistakes; whereas one can amend various aspects of conduct or behavior, emend is used if the issue at hand is that of a manuscript, speech, or literary product"

I'll be damned.

In other news, go sign up for Elance.com right now.  I've been a free member (can bid on 3 jobs per month) for about a month, and Monday I upgraded to a $10 monthly membership, feeling like a chump.  Then I used about 17 or 18 of my Connects (usually one per job, sometimes up to four depending on the price of the job).  Wednesday I got a job for $107, and Thursday (yesterday) I got a job for $1335 -- with a $500 advance.  No kidding. It is in NO WAY passive income; I'm going to be working my butt off for that $1350 (take home) and hoping noone else accepts my bids for a little while, but do you have direct, peer-to-peer way of making an extra $1350 in 11 weeks? That is freaking awesome.  The best thing about reading the various bids is they really get your entrepreneurial streak going -- you start thinking that starting your own website with ebooks or test-prep or etc. is really accessible since there are so many people willing to write you 20k words for $100. Or design your website. Or edit your homework. Or run your stats. Or code your iPhone app.

Freelancing might not be as terrible as various pay-for-content websites make it sound.

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The Sims 3 Collector's Edition
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Monday, May 11, 2009

another one.. from the hotel

So, I'm getting married. Did you know this? We are. In less than two weeks now, to be exact.

At first wedding planning was fun - a big huge open space of data I didn't know anything about. I spent lots and lots... and lots and lots ... of time doing internet research and building powerpoints of pictures and reading crappily written "copywriting for the web" style articles about flowers and hair and favors and whatnot.

Then we picked almost everything last summer. Site, menu, cake, attendants, DJ, flowers, dress, save-the-date magnets, and had a surprise bridal shower. And promptly tried to forget about wedding planning for 4 months while we got jobs in the "track" we wanted - I dropped out of my PhD program - started paying back student loans and applied for transfer/promotions.

This is the home stretch - I can't shop on eBay for random crap anymore because there won't be time for it to show up. We each only have 1 week left of work before the great migration of us and our crap - and his mom - to Ohio, along with 35 other family members and a few friends. We're finalizing the last things - or rather, my mom is (awesome!! definitely get married in your hometown if you live somewhere else. it is awesome) - and some of these things are fodder for the semantic avenger!! (thus the point of this post)

Today I saw this on the menu for the rehearsal dinner: "An Assortment of Parmizzano’s House Specialty Desserts
To Compliment the Menu"

Okay. Here is my disclaimer again: the semantic avenger does not assume that everyone should know about these grammar errors. That's why it is a public service. The Avenger enjoys pointing them out because they are the sort of mistakes people make who ALSO are upset by basic grammar and word choice errors like they're/there/their and other such things.  For example, people overuse "insure" rather than "ensure" but that's OK. It's not as bad as extra apostrophe's [sic] or, being comma, happy. This is one of those things.

Compliment is for people. Complement is for things. Colors complement each other. You compliment her shoes.

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By George B. Bradt, Jayme A. Check, Jorge E. Pedraza
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Friday, December 19, 2008

clichés...?!?

I have been regularly lamenting (maybe not here) about how my cognitive capacity - and more specifically, grammar and writing skills - have been going down the toilet lately. It's enough to make me want to go back to school. Well, not quite yet.

And now Outlook is criticizing me.  Not about passive voice or split infinitives, I always get that and it doesn't bother me. But I am apparently becoming too folksy in my emails. Microsoft green-zigzagged the phrase "food for thought" - and then said "Cliché - No suggestions".

!!!! How dare they !!!!  This, of course, immediately makes me wonder if there is a special "hockey-mom" patch one can install to not only stop Microsoft from persecuting down-home vernacular, but also suggest improvements to make your emails more folksy. Someone should make that add-on, or at least an online translator for Palin-ese.

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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

high-brow grammar errors, part 2

So, we have already talked about principal and principle (as in, although you might be a princiPLEd and ethical researcher, if you are the lead person on your IRB or grant application, you are the princiPAL investigator), and other errors that lots of people don't notice, like discrete (numbers) and discreet (behavior).

Sure, I could lament about loose and lose (why is that a common error? wtf is wrong with people???) or the tendency to add apostrophes willy-nilly if the word ends in S, but these are high-brow grammar errors, the kind that aggravate me most because I am only about 85% certain that I am right.

okay, are you ready?  this one has really been driving me insane lately. please listen up...

INSURE is for INSURANCE. And that is it.

I know you are using it a lot more than that, but you are wrong. You mean ENSURE.  You might even mean ASSURE. But you really, really, don't mean insure.

more to follow, just had to expulse that one.

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Here are some links.. (some are not linked yet)

Why do girls love Edward Cullen from Twilight so much?

Tips for homeless teenagers Part 1 Part 2

Write for associated content, I barely do and I have made $85. For seriously.

Get free stuff at vistaprint. Like business cards (I ordered my first free business cards from them in 2000 for acmezine marketing. ah, acmezine, you were so much fun.) and any other paper products (like super awesome save-the-date magnets, which are gorgeous. That reminds me, I have to tell the Issac story. Oh, did you notice that "Issac" is not how you spell "Isaac"? That's the story). Yes, you have to pay shipping, but on most of their stuff (esp if you watch for sales), that is it. Jenel got her announcements and thank you cards from them, and I am probably designing and ordering my invitations through their site, too. Because $0.50 is what a wedding invitation should cost, dammit.)

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And then here is a question, because I am only partially hip to the "2.0" internets. What should I use to index links of things I like or want to share? I know there is squidoo, but I don't mean I want to write a whole lens for unrelated things. I guess I should just link things here. And how do I link twitter to facebook, or find people on twitter for that matter?? I so have not investigated the things called digg/delicious/stumbleupon but I think that is what I want.  Any ideas? Recommendations? Does anyone think it is stupid to ask questions on a blog that has been inactive for so long that noone reads it?

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The Forsyte Saga: In Chancery
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

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The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the DecadesBefore Roe v. Wade
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