A Dragon in Sheep’s Clothing

Questionable findings found in Blackwater contracts
Courtesy of The Virginian-Pilot

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Or maybe it’s just BBC vs. CNN… but I don’t think so.
BBC headline:
Austria cellar daughter conscious
CNN headline:
Incest dungeon girl wakes from coma

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I know everyone complains about their local paper. There’s always that one bad editor or writer, and typos and mangled sentences muddying the newsprint.
I just had to mention a brief I saw on the Daily Press’s website this morning. The story isn’t funny, but the writing of it made me shake my head.
“A [...]

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Stumbled across this old review of “The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care” by John McWhorter.
Although the review notes the terrible grammar used in this book (ironic, and a shame), it also seems to say that the arguments behind the book are sound.
I thought these quotes from the review were [...]

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Avid readers and book collectors will be interested in the brief tale of the discovery of this lost play, described below the table of contents.

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