Bliss by Harry Bliss for February 05, 2021

I believe you’re exaggerating the enormity of misusing a semicolon; it’s not that big a deal.

Don’t forget dubious use of “literally”. :P :P :P

You left out apostrophe abuse!

English being an incredibly fluid language, yesterday’s usage error is often today’s entirely correct usage. In the lifetime of many reading this comment, the use of contact as a verb has gone from forbidden to “Watchu talkin’ ’bout Willis?”

Until the late 1960s, an English teacher could be expected to say that you cannot contact someone… but you can make contact with them.

Enormity is now routinely and acceptably used in multiple senses many of which were once regarded as incorrect.

One reason that I love the Oxford English Dictionary ( which is the greatest dictionary of any language in history) is that it does not claim to judge the correctness or incorrectness of a given usage. It is descriptive of language as it is, not prescriptive of how it “should” be.

That’s why the entry for set describes over 500 senses of the word and is longer than many novels. (The entry for put is even longer.)

The sign on the left obviously takes you to the lowest level.

Is Phonetic Punctuation included?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJiHlt8NRqk

“Enormity” – reminds me of when someone says (what seems to me to be kind of an annoying word) “ginormous”, I want to respond with my version of combining gi-gantic and e-normous & say “ egantic ”.

two out of three…

Overuse of the word Awesome!

Spell Checker will fix that ;-)

If those are the only signs, I’m golden!

I think you are failing to grasp the… size? of the situation.

shouldn’t that be “Questionable; placement of a semicolon”?

Naan bread improves greatly in a well controlled lake of fire scenario…. and apples roasting on an open fire is also a terrific idea in the suburbs of Hell’s fire department.

At least Hell does not appear to be lukewarm.

Spell checkers that “choose” the wrong word.

I checked Snopes to see if these signs are real. They said yes.

Use of the word “Basically” should put you on the fast track to hell.

I could care less where I go…

Ambiguous arrows also on the list.

Bring back the Burma Shave signs!

The only true sign you will see is “Rejecting Jesus the Christ as LORD”

The misuse of “enormity” is an enormity.

Basically, the excessively and repetitive use of adverbs is highly annoying, he said redundantly.

HEY! Semicolons are TOUGH. 99% of people do it wrong; almost everyone gets it wrong! (I’m only 40% sure I did that right!)

There is a book with the title, “Semicolon.” The author makes a point of saying that other grammarians are wrong. Maybe they can all go to purgatory until they figure it out.

There, they’re, their

Wikipedia is pretty reliable AND links to the sources so it IS not a bad option for most posts.

Can you get cancer of the semicolon? And would you have a semicolonoscopy?

What about the errant apostrophe?