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In The Belly of the Whale - Now Available
Dear Readers, Dad's final (? maybe?) work is now available at Amazon, B&N, and many other fine retailers. I compiled a list a fe...
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TOF once wrote an article entitled "The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown and Down 'n Dirty Mud-Wrassle" which described the century-l...
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Hello family, friends and fans of Michael F. Flynn. It is with sorrow and regret that I inform you that my father passed away yesterday,...
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1. The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown 2. The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown: Down for the Count 3. The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown: The Great Gali...
Especially the address.
ReplyDeleteIf you read stuff written by teachers - not students, the people who are supposed to be teaching them - this sort of thing is not surprising at all. Why care about usage if you don't care about communicating in general?
ReplyDeleteMaybe the Prom Theme is, indeed, indicated by the word 'Are' - the Theme is "Ontology of a Multiverse."
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It's like an unresolved chord. I want to insert punctuation, however inappropriate it may be: "This is/are story."
ReplyDeleteGentlemen, you've got it all wrong.
ReplyDeleteClearly, it's a pirate-themed prom, the 'e' in 'Arr' is just a simple typo.
If I wrote this into a news story, my headline would be "This is A(real) Story"
ReplyDeleteBut what I really suspect is the case is that we are taking high school to mean the wrong thing: it's where you learn how to get high, not where you learn anything else... (what could be more important?) ;-)
Ourrgh!
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