There’s vermin in my library!

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And by vermin I mean Ungeziefer of course. And if that Ungeziefer were a snake, the little bugger probably would have bitten me. Yeah, so… after yesterday’s mostly tongue-in-cheek diatribe re: my frustration with translators who blasphemously translate Ungeziefer, the German word for the mysterious critter into which Franz Kafka has Gregor Samsa of “The … Read more

So Many Weird Grammar Moods Give Me the Blues

Weird moods such as… 1 Realis moods 1.1 Indicative 2 Irrealis moods 2.1 Subjunctive 2.2 Conditional 2.3 Optative 2.4 Imperative 2.5 Jussive 2.6 Potential 2.7 Hypothetical 2.8 Inferential 2.9 Interrogative 2.10 Deontic Mood vs. Epistemic Mood As do weird modern remakes of classic Moody Blues mood music… #newisnotalwaysbetter  

I and Me Confusing You and Yours

Still confused about the whole “me” or “I” thing, I see. Listen, just slapping “I” in every sentence where there is a need for a pronoun for you isn’t going to make you seem smarter, my friend. It will make you seem just the opposite to those who know the rules… So what is the … Read more

MY VIEW – A Women’s Issues Feature

When DotedOn submitted her essay My View to the Relating to Humans Women’s Issues feature, I could immediately feel its power and its truth, and the life lived as written, raw and exposed. When submitted, DotedOn initially addressed it to me. I wrote to her soon after and asked if I could take out the … Read more

English is for Everyone

Within that old stash, I also found many of my old English lessons, and old worksheets, and old handouts. They all bring back fond and funny and fortunate memories. I miss all my — I hesitate to call them students because it seemed as if I ended up learning more from them than they did from me, so I’ll simply say, I miss all my friends from that period of my life.

It’s FTW! Because We Love to Win! – part 2

I just had to say something raunchy and with impact right now because I want you to know right from the get go exactly what direction this post is headed. So, if you are not in the mood for a pissed off raunchy post (Another one?), you may just want to back click yourself slowly away from the site right now before you or anyone else gets hurt.