Comma mines

My kid loves a t-shirt that says something like “punctuation saves lives: let’s eat, Jim; and let’s eat Jim!” Today I saw a discussion of macapuno (mutant sport coconut, which merits its own discussion) that had someone commenting thus: “It’s the best man”. Took me a moment to go into editor mode and insert the […]

Introduction and rhyme production

Hi, I’m S. You may vaguely remember me from such comments as “I think it’s good to be aware of the peculiar rules of the Pretentious Pedant dialect of English” and Eleanor Heffalump’s double-dactyl, which were written under the name of “Shmuel” before I came out as nonbinary and changed my handle. (It turns out […]