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		<title>Compounding an Apostrophe Problem</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Penguins fans is a compound noun, so it doesn't need an apostrophe. That doesn't mean it can't take an apostrophe, but it does seem to be dispreferred.]]></description>
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		<title>An exclamation point?</title>
		<link>http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/an-exclamation-point/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can you use exclamation points for a rhetorical question? I sure can't, but apparently Philadelphians can.]]></description>
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		<title>In which I earn a bottle of champagne</title>
		<link>http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/in-which-i-earn-a-bottle-of-champagne/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summary: Meeting with someone usually means you're getting together to discuss something semi-formally. Meeting someone usually only happens the first time (or the first couple of times if you have a bad memory) that you encounter someone. Meeting up with someone usually only happens after the first time you encounter someone.  But each can be used for the other sometimes.]]></description>
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		<title>Guerrilla Prescriptivism</title>
		<link>http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/guerrilla-prescriptivism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 20:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's another picture post!]]></description>
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		<title>over = more than</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 20:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summary: 1000 years of usage, the Oxford English Dictionary, the Columbia Journalism Review, and even most prescriptivists agree: over and more than are interchangeable.]]></description>
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		<title>How should you teach grammar?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 18:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arnold Zwicky (whose class last summer was the inspiration for this blog, by the way) has a killer post on Language Log right now.  His key point is twofold, complete with two catchy mottos: &#8220;Crazies win&#8221; and &#8220;Don&#8217;t let crazies win&#8221;.  Crazies, in this particular context, are people who demand that you do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back when &#8216;literally&#8217; was good etiquette</title>
		<link>http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/back-when-literally-was-good-etiquette/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 18:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you against non-literal usages of "literally"?  Then you probably aren't going to want to get your etiquette advice from Amy Vanderbilt.]]></description>
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		<title>Proto-unintentional-emoticons</title>
		<link>http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/proto-unintentional-emoticons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 07:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early Cyrillic alphabets sometimes used a variant of omega that looks just like a face to me.  Was this the first step on the slippery slope to emoticons?]]></description>
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		<title>Quick note about singular &#8216;they&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/quick-note-about-singular-they/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have noticed that I&#8217;ve made something of a habit of flouting prescription and unapologetically using they as a non-specific third person singular pronoun &#8212; along the lines of &#8220;he or she&#8221;.  As any good, rage-filled prescriptivist will gladly inform you, this is WRONG WRONG WRONG.
But it&#8217;s not, as Geoff Pullum insightfully argues.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re: e(-)mail</title>
		<link>http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/re-e-mail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summary: Look, there are arguments that "e-mail" is better with a hyphen, and there're arguments that it's better without one.  But none of them are compelling.  Use the form you want.]]></description>
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