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this cockeyed blog is so entertaining, i read every post myself at least ten times. it's all fun and no play...no dull boy...i write about no dull boy. DRY WINE!
Sights I Often See On Sites I Sometimes Cite
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- Alcademics
- Rachel's new site was almost named Legless Until I Have My Consciousness Transplanted Into the Brain of a Clone of Myself with Genetic Enhancements So I’m Like a Superhero
- Excessive Mastication
- Barack Obama's Facebook Site
- Tucker Max might have been my role model if I'd stayed in the States and never grew up (Warning: Very Sick)
- Merkley is a long lost blog that I couldn't remember how I got there till I saw a book by Merkys and knew it was something like that
- The Best Page in the Universe will keep your entertained for a while
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Other books I"m currently reading
- Doctor Sax
- We Are Not Alone
3 comments:
Since when did 'informational' become a word?
I have a favourite Hindu fable about atheism. An atheist who was so determined in his lack-of-belief that, all through his life, he repeated to himself the phrase 'there is no God, there is no God, there is no God, there is no God'. It was the first thing he said in the morning, the last thing he said at night, and the only thing he said to himself through the whole day. He repeated the phrase to himself endlessly. On dying, he found that he was instantly united with God, who he had kept perpetually - if unwittingly - in his mind.
Since when did the apostrophe become confused with the quotation mark?
To answer your question, at least since 2009, but I suspect much earlier: in'for·ma'tion·al adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Good fable!
Hm, good point, I always assumed they were just single quotation marks, but now that I look at my computer it's got a separate key for the single quote mark. I think the assumption on the part of the folks who make these keyboards must be that the apostrophe and the single quotation mark are interchangeable, and have designed the computer so that the key pretty much acts as if this is so anyway.
I would have thought that 'informational' has not come to Australia, but a quick check of Macquarie online tells me that it has. Bugger, now I'm going to have to do something about getting rid of the word again...
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