Author: Alexandra
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Editor V Writer
What a writer thinks an Editor’s proofreading marks really mean: frag = editor watches to much Battlestar Galactica rev = add more sex NC = editor is from North Carolina run on = procrastinates at the gym SP = editor speaks Spanish bf = add best friend ram = insert horny character slash = kill-off […]
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LOL & OMG Toll the death-knell of the English Language
Really? I don’t think so. English is one of those languages that begs, borrows and downright steals from other languages to the point of stalking them down dark alleys. Where, before hitting them over the head with a dangling participle, rifles through a language’s pockets in search of any word it thinks it can get […]
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Ode to the Weather
Why are we constantly surprised by the weather, every season, with exclamations like, “Damn, why is it so hot today?” or “Can you believe we got SEVEN feet of snow last night?” to “How cold did you just say it was outside?” As if we forgot, forgot what it was like last summer, or last […]
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Stapled
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