“When we didn’t have a manual yet, when we didn’t know what to name the commands on our menus, when we needed our business cards spelled right, we couldn’t have done without you,” the boss said. “But now the product is in release, and I don’t see the ROI from fine-polishing the error messages.”
Read MoreThe English language is only human. It didn’t anticipate everything you might want to say.
Read MoreWriters who find the word “and” overused substitute “along with,” “in addition to,” “not to mention,” “as well as,” or “besides,” without realizing that each of those substitutes has its own connotation and none of them has the power of creating a plural.
Read MoreKipling mentioned “such boastings as the Gentiles use, or lesser breeds without the Law.” In other words, only a certain kind of boasting. But if he had written “boastings, such as the Gentiles use,” it would include all boastings and those of the Gentiles would be just an example.
Read MoreI knew I couldn’t put across an explanation, but perhaps I could at least put across the impression that I think I know what I’m talking about. “It comes down to a difference between English and Hebrew,” I said. “The word ‘it,’ in the objective case, can serve as a relative pronoun in Hebrew but not in English.”
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