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Bryan A. Garner
Editor in chief, Black's Law Dictionary; author, Garner's Modern English Usage. Fall in love with language & it will love you back.
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Bryan A. Garner 10 ಗಂ.
Well, it’s the single most important thing in a Justice—if you think of good writing as the marriage of excellent thoughts with excellent expression.
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Uh, I rarely do this. But it’s “whoever wins.”
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How do rubes pronounce “pubes”? The one-syllable pronunciation is certainly a newcomer. The two-syllable /PYOO-beez/ is the only pronunciation given in Webster’s Third and Webster’s Tenth Collegiate (1993)—that’s all I have handy. How does one pronounce “lues” or “octopodes”?
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ಇವರಿಗೆ ಪ್ರತಿಕ್ರಿಯಿಸಲಾಗುತ್ತಿದೆ @ChrisCamardello
A 1995 S500. I’ve been the only owner. Miles: 105K.
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Bryan A. Garner ಜುಲೈ 5
“When I split an infinitive, goddamn it, I split it so it will stay split.”—Raymond Chandler (1947)
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Bryan A. Garner ಜುಲೈ 5
Oops. My well-meaning, multitalented brother meant Black’s Law Dictionary. But mayhap he was thinking of my OUP title Garner’s Dictionary of Legal Usage.
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Bryan A. Garner ಜುಲೈ 5
A commercial just told me that I must buy a Mazda to be extraordinary. I prefer to be ordinary—driving my 1995 car that’s not a Mazda.
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Sarah Mervosh ಜುಲೈ 4
ಇವರಿಗೆ ಪ್ರತಿಕ್ರಿಯಿಸಲಾಗುತ್ತಿದೆ @KoryStamper @BryanAGarner
Trump’s distinctive style has brought us Witch Hunt and Fake News, a big-B Border and Crime with a capital C. But what *are* the actual rules of capitalization? A handy guide in an era of tweeting, texting and Trump
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Alan Yuhas ಜುಲೈ 4
.⁦⁩ spoke with the grammarian greats ⁦⁩ and ⁦⁩ for a delightful primer on capping style
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Bryan A. Garner ಜುಲೈ 4
ಇವರಿಗೆ ಪ್ರತಿಕ್ರಿಯಿಸಲಾಗುತ್ತಿದೆ @vikramraghavan
Not a good example of anything bad! The usual phrase is “apropos of nothing.”
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Bryan A. Garner ಜುಲೈ 4
Sorry: it’s not good usage in either BrE or AmE.
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Bryan A. Garner ಜುಲೈ 3
Presidential usage is inherently newsworthy. What’s fascinating about today’s presidential tweet about how “Fake News” hunts for his usage errors isn’t that it contained a usage error, but that it’s a clear use of “Fake News” in the sense “people who don’t like me.”
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Bryan A. Garner ಜುಲೈ 3
Apropos of something, PORE vs. POUR. I capitalize only for emphasis.
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Lane Greene ಜುಲೈ 2
This American cover is coming at you so hard. November 6, people.
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Bryan A. Garner ಜುಲೈ 2
“If some solecism or other is adopted by many ignorant people, this, in my opinion, hardly means that it should be accepted as a rule and followed by others.”—Baldesar Castiglione (1528)
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Bryan A. Garner ಜೂನ್ 29
What a day for opening the mail at LawProse! My goodness. It’s like Christmas in sweltering June.
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Bryan A. Garner ಜೂನ್ 29
ಇವರಿಗೆ ಪ್ರತಿಕ್ರಿಯಿಸಲಾಗುತ್ತಿದೆ @jess_griffith
Can you cite an instance in which “you” isn’t the implicit subject?
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“Nothing should be expressed in two words that can be as well expressed in one;…the words should be placed so as to be agreeable to the ear in reading; summarily, it should be smooth, clear, and short, for the contrary qualities are displeasing.” —Benjamin Franklin
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Bryan A. Garner ಜೂನ್ 28
Of all the wonderful books by Ward Farnsworth, dean of law at ⁦⁩, this may be the very best. It’s an extraordinary accomplishment. ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦
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