Reactions to story from Fritinancy

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  Dammit

  http://mr-verb.blogspot.com/2008/04/dammit.html
  20 days ago in Mr. Verb · Authority: 42

  OK, I was plenty embarrassed by the 0% rating on the cuss-o-meter, but now certain bloggers — among my favorites, as if the knife needs twisting (or "needs twisted" for you mostly Midlands speakers) — have started to tease me about it. See here and here. Saintly? (OK, maybe that wasn't meant badly, but that shoe doesn't fit!) "Wisconsin goody two-shoes!"? Just for the record, in real life, I utter a constant stream of obscenities. Just this morning I was — no kidding — hollering a set of things to a whole group of people that would get you banned from radio. Not in anger or anything, but it was the right thing to do in the circumstances. It seems like a pseudonymous blogger who is foul-mouthed in real life would light up the meter on the web. I'm as baffled as anybody. Cripes. But there's been a big dust-up over on ScienceBlog about pseudonymous blogging and authority. More on that later. Image from here. It was time to get away from album covers.
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  (Not?) As bad as I wanna be

  http://polyglotconspiracy.net/index.php/archives/2008/04/22/...
  21 days ago in polyglot conspiracy · Authority: 25

  I guess I never wrote a post all about “fuck,” “piss,” “shit,” “cunt,” “motherfucker,” “cocksucker,” or “tits.” Would’ve been realllllly easy though, for a linguist and all. (h/t Fritinancy)  Also, apparently this means that Mr. Verb is 7.3%100% less dirty than me. Take that, Wisconsin goody two-shoes! Michigan is so tough.
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  Niggling points by angry old people

  http://www.mikepope.com/blog/DisplayBlog.aspx?permalink=1956
  21 days ago in mike's web log · Authority: 18

  Via the ever-entertaining Fritinancy, I am led to Motivated Grammar, a blog whose stated goal "is to explain the motivations behind the real grammar of English and to debunk ill-founded claims about what is grammatical and what isn't." If that alone doesn't give you a clear picture of what it's all about, consider a recent entry about whether to write e-mail or email: That’s a really dumb debate. Why on earth should it matter? I would even go so far as to say that if it matters to you, you’re probably reading the wrong blog. Strike that. You’re reading the right blog, because hopefully I’ll eventually convince you that stupid little niggling points like this don’t matter. Maybe you’ll even come to believe that holding staunch opinions about insignificant points like whether there’s a hyphen in e-mail serves only to convince people that grammar is just a bunch of stupid rules determined more or less arbitrarily by angry old people, and that most of these rules can be safely ignored by reasonable people. People have reasonable explanations for why there should be a hyphen in e-mail. But most people don't care, and getting frothy about the mouth when people don't listen to your reasonable explanation (assuming that you do indeed have one) doesn't generally convince anyone. Except that perhaps your sanity is slipping. And they will then return to whatever productive activity they were pursuing before you interrupted them about this inconsequential matter. [more]

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