Day 13 of 100 blogs in 100 days
Day 13 of my endeavor to hang out and visit 100 blogs in 100 days...
Express thyself! Tim W. has a way with words... His blog, Mother Tongue Annoyances is: "A weblog devoted to sharing my literary and linguistic pet peeves with the English-speaking world at large."
This blog entry from Tim caught my attention:
Thank you Tim! I would say to bloggers that cuss a lot - TAKE a CHILL PILL ... we're not in kindergarten anymore..."Some blog authors tend to swear quite a bit in their blog posts. Cuss, in other words. Or use profanity. Or use expletives. Fill in the blank with whatever euphemism you care to supply. I tend to prefer the noun expletive, as its definition, according to Answers.com, is "a word or phrase that does not contribute any meaning but is added only to fill out a sentence or a metrical line.
That definition is chiefly why I choose not to use profanity in this blog. In most cases, these four-letter words do not add anything substantive to the message that I am trying to relate to you."
Besides Tim's little editorial, there are short essays on neologisms, colloquial expressions, use of the term of endearment "dude" and anecdotes. Before you tune out, I look at this blog and Tim as the English class and teacher I wish I had back in school. The English language has been butchered over the years, and I think it worthy to celebrate our use of words in a proper way... Fo' Shizzle!
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