Day: February 13, 2010

Image used under Creative Commons license from Flickr user g_kat26. “No children you’re not seeing things.  This, my little friends, is a schwa.” – Principal Skinner I generally avoid criticizing the tics and tacks of other people’s grammar and sentence construction.  When it comes to the rules of the English language my knowledge is scant; the whys and wherefores of clauses and participles have always eluded me.  On top of that I have a principled objection to the idea that my communications with other people should be rigidly governed by rules that were created long before I was born.  If…