You know you’re a language nerd when you have a strong opinion about serial commas. – Author unknown
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Among the losses punctuation suffers through the decay of language is the slash mark or diagonal… – Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969), “Punctuation Marks,” Notes to Literature, V
Grammar is a piano I play by ear, since I seem to have been out of school the year the rules were mentioned. All I know about grammar is its infinite power. – Joan Didion, “Why I Write,” 1976
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The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality. – Herbert Read
Its not common for a woman on television, especially if shes the mom of the family, to be funny. Shes usually a straight man or foil. – Martha Plimpton