http://www.blogpi.net/english-101 Putting the blogosphere under a magnifying glass Fri, 5 Dec 2008 11:43:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.blogpi.net/english-101#comment-139855 Googling the Conventions at Blog P.I. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:59:10 +0000 http://www.blogpi.net/english-101#comment-139855 <p>[...] certainly a good investment. It may pain the Democrats to compete, let alone pay money, for the grammatically incorrect non-”ic” variation on their party’s name, but then Google searches don’t [...]</p> [...] certainly a good investment. It may pain the Democrats to compete, let alone pay money, for the grammatically incorrect non-”ic” variation on their party’s name, but then Google searches don’t [...]

]]> http://www.blogpi.net/english-101#comment-28168 When IC is Just PC at Blog P.I. Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:28:14 +0000 http://www.blogpi.net/english-101#comment-28168 <p>[...] As both a political junkie and the recipient of a degreee in English, I’ve been a longtime observer of the Republican tendency to use the noun “Democrat” as an adjective, as President Bush recently caught flak for doing in (what was supposed to be) a conciliatory State of the Union address. [...]</p> [...] As both a political junkie and the recipient of a degreee in English, I’ve been a longtime observer of the Republican tendency to use the noun “Democrat” as an adjective, as President Bush recently caught flak for doing in (what was supposed to be) a conciliatory State of the Union address. [...]

]]> http://www.blogpi.net/english-101#comment-99 MyDD’s Matt Stoller Dissembles And Smears Non-Partisan Journalists at Blog P.I. (beta) Fri, 18 Aug 2006 23:30:05 +0000 http://www.blogpi.net/english-101#comment-99 <p>[...] As an activist, Stoller appears to project his own “hatcheteering” ways onto others, especially political journalists. Oh well. He’s made up his mind on this for sure, but if I’m an unblinking partisan hatcheteer, then he really isn’t reading very closely. Then again, Matt isn’t exactly known for his sense of proportion. And you can tell he hasn’t been reading very carefully in part beause his imprecise writing style implies that the “for instance” relates to me, when in fact he’s linking to Conn’s Wednesday column. [...]</p> [...] As an activist, Stoller appears to project his own “hatcheteering” ways onto others, especially political journalists. Oh well. He’s made up his mind on this for sure, but if I’m an unblinking partisan hatcheteer, then he really isn’t reading very closely. Then again, Matt isn’t exactly known for his sense of proportion. And you can tell he hasn’t been reading very carefully in part beause his imprecise writing style implies that the “for instance” relates to me, when in fact he’s linking to Conn’s Wednesday column. [...]

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