Hasta hace algunos meses, se decía que los adolescentes no usaban Twitter y que nunca iban a hacerlo, porque era demasiado público y porque había demasiados adultos.
Esa impresión se basaba en datos que mostraban que menos de uno de cada 10 adolescentes estaban usando Twitter al inicio.
Sin embargo, algo curioso comenzó a pasar: Padres, abuelos, vecinos, amigos de los padres y otros comenzaron a contactarlos en Facebook, la red social favorita de muchos. De repente, ese espacio ya no era de los jóvenes solamente, así que muchos comenzaron a pasarse a Twitter, casi escondidos a la vista de todos.
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THE ANGRY GRAMMARIAN
Philadelphia Weekly February 18, 2009 | Barg, Jeffrey Anal Bitching Am I tht only ont who twitches when I hoar someone say, “I’m very OCD” about something or other? I say K sounds wrong; OC is an adjective, OCD Is a noun. Is this right, or am I just being too OC about the whole thing?
Last week they came to verb the nouns, and I didn’t speak up because I was not a verb. This week they came to adjective the nouns, and I didn’t speak up because I was not an adjective.
Actually, that’s not a problem, since verbing nouns is a great American pastime. By the same reasoning, adjectiving nouns should be perfectly legitimate as well. The problem is one of word choice, not grammar. go to site college essay topics
True story: A 17-year-old Angry Grammarian was writing his college admissions essay about how anal retentive he was. (Hard to believe, I know.) But unless you’re applying to Oberlin, you can’t really write “anal retentive” in your college essay. So I wrote “obsessive-compulsive” instead. But that introduces another problem: OCD is an actual medical disorder-not a term you can just fling around. Which is worse for a college essay: improper word choice or mentioning a butt?
I honestly don’t remember what word I ended up substituting, but the lesson remains that “OCD” has a very specific meaning, and it likely doesn’t apply to you. Unless you have a serious medical condition, you’re probably not nearly as OCD about your word choice as you think you are. go to site college essay topics
How do you punctuate “like” when quoting someone? Do you put commas around the “like”? People use that word so frequently, we have to confront It. This column has plenty of readers who view “like” to be the great scourge of our language. (They tell me so. Often.) But it’s not going away, so the least we can do is punctuate it properly.
“Like” serves the same function as “urn” or “uh,” which you wouldn’t dream of floating in the middle of a sentence unpunctuated. If the “like”-sayers promise to set it off with commas, as they would with “urn,” maybe they can find some peace with the hardened prescriptivists whose ears are bleeding.
[Author Affiliation] By Jeffrey Barg jbarg@philadelphiaweekly.com Barg, Jeffrey
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Hasta hace algunos meses, se decía que los adolescentes no usaban Twitter y que nunca iban a hacerlo, porque era demasiado público y porque había demasiados adultos.
