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From the Dept. of We All Make Mistakes
A few days ago I posted on this New York Times article about the memoirs from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I was happy to see memoirist friends like Craig
Subject: spelling penalty boxAndrew,As I just posted on your blog (not sure if you or anyone is minding it in the snowstorm), you are in the penalty box of the spelling of the English language. I appreciate your comments, but you mispelled my name. It's Elisabeth with an s.Cheers, Elisabeth
Subject: On the other hand...I just noticed that I misspelled misspelled.E.
As long as we're piling on,
As long as we're piling on, you misspelled your man Travis Sharp's name last week, too. HTH!
Do it, Times! Do a longer
Do it, Times! Do a longer series about the types of art generated by the wars (to include memoirs), and that Q&A thingy, too, or whatever. Hey, you got those online art blogs, don't you, Times people?
Or maybe, do a one-sentence micro-fiction "about the wars" contest or something, like that one-sentence site does. Come on, people. Be creative!
Okay, back to work. Or, more properly, back to "work."
Exum, you are in the penalty
Exum, you are in the penalty box of the English language for suggesting the English language has a penalty box. If the English language is great, it is only because it is a bloated, all-consuming monster with no rules of any kind. That's why it craps all over French.
I am now also in the penalty box for putting you in the until-quite-recently-nonexistent penalty box, thereby reinforcing your illegitimate construction of it.
And somewhere in all of this we are doing COIN really hard.
Maybe we should all reclass
Maybe we should all reclass into counter intelligence.
"Exum, you are in the
"Exum, you are in the penalty box of the English language for suggesting the English language has a penalty box. If the English language is great, it is only because it is a bloated, all-consuming monster with no rules of any kind." - Haak
GENIUS COMMENT (not sure about the French part, though....)
Obviously, there ARE rules - not that some of us bothered to learn them. Or would apply them if we did. Rules and I have a troubled relationship, but we are in therapy. Personally, I think it's going to work out!
my comment or question is.
my comment or question is. that is this surge an attempt by obama to get the republicans
out of international afairs or to shut down there projects iraq and afganistan.
i know your reply will include that even though were down scaleing that we will have bases
there for years.
but im wondering if this is an attempt to just finally outsource the war to nato.
and get the heak out of there..
Is is getting CHIIE in
Is is getting CHIIE in here??? It is not the first minting error and not the last.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8511910.stm
Theirs a silver lining here:
Theirs a silver lining here: you're spelling is better then you're grammar.
Dept we all make mistakes..
Dept we all make mistakes.. Neat :)
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