RARA-AVIS: Grammar Noir

From: John Stickney (stickney_jj@yahoo.com)
Date: 05 Mar 2009

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    John McIntyre's grammatical noir, serialized in his Baltimore Sun blog You Don't Say in preparation for National Grammar Day tomorrow, is now complete:

    "Down these mean sentences I walk alone", 2/14/2009 http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/mcintyre/blog/2009/02/down_those_mean_sentences_i_walk_alone.html

    "'What are we going to do now?' she asked", 2/18/2009 http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/mcintyre/blog/2009/02/what_are_we_going_to_do_now_she_asked.html

    "The Fat Man chuckles", 2/23/2009 http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/mcintyre/blog/2009/02/the_fat_man_chuckles.html

    "The rule you don't break", 3/2/2009 http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/mcintyre/blog/2009/03/the_rule_you_dont_break.html

    From Language Log (Blog) http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1201

             
            
            

            

            
            

          

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