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		<title>Not Surprising, This Sounds Awkward</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day at work I came across a strange construction: an author had used &#8220;not surprising&#8221; as a sentence adverb, as in &#8220;Not surprising, the data show that. . . .&#8221; I assumed it was simply an error, so I changed it to &#8220;not surprisingly&#8221; and went on. But then I saw the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Linguists and Straw Men</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry I haven&#8217;t posted in so long (I know I say that a lot)&#8212;I&#8217;ve been busy with school and things. Anyway, a couple months back I got a comment on an old post of mine, and I wanted to address it. I know it&#8217;s a bit lame to respond to two-month-old comments, but it was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arrantpedantry.com/2009/06/19/linguists-and-straw-men/</link>
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		<title>Reflections on National Grammar Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know I&#8217;m a week late to the party, but I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about National Grammar Day and want to blog about it anyway. Please forgive me for my untimeliness. 
First off, I should say for those who don&#8217;t know me that I work as a copy editor. I clearly understand the value [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arrantpedantry.com/2009/03/10/reflections-on-national-grammar-day/</link>
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		<title>Do You Agree That We Ask for Your Consent?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished filing my federal taxes with H&#038;R Block&#8217;s free e-filing (which I highly recommend, by the way), and at the end I encountered some rather confusing language. After submitting my return, I came to a page asking if I consented to let H&#038;R Block use my information for marketing purposes. (I always wonder [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arrantpedantry.com/2009/01/27/do-you-agree-that-we-ask-for-your-consent/</link>
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		<title>Less and Fewer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know this topic has been addressed in detail elsewhere (see goofy&#8217;s post here for example), but a friend recently asked me about it, so I thought I&#8217;d take a crack at it. It&#8217;s fairly straightforward: there are the complex, implicit rules that people have been following for over a thousand years, and then there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arrantpedantry.com/2008/12/23/less-and-fewer/</link>
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		<title>Impacted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I received an e-mail from my bank informing me that they had experienced some system outages. What struck me was that the e-mail kept referring to &#8220;impacted systems,&#8221; and it conjured up some strange mental images.
A lot of people hate the verb impact because they say that it should only be a noun or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arrantpedantry.com/2008/09/06/impacted/</link>
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		<title>New and Improved Shirts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick update to say that I&#8217;ve redone the design for my Better Living Through Syntax shirts. Now it actually looks like a proper X-bar structure instead of a hastily drawn tree-thingy. Check it out! 
Keep in mind that the shirt colors there are just examples&#8212;you can choose your own. And, as always, if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arrantpedantry.com/2008/08/26/new-and-improved-shirts/</link>
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		<title>The Newest Fangled Backformation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day at work I came across a fantastic formation I&#8217;d never seen before: &#8220;newest fangled.&#8221; It was from a speech given back in 1938 by J. Reuben Clark at Brigham Young University, where the law school is named for him. 
The speech was pretty formal and serious, so I&#8217;m not sure if I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arrantpedantry.com/2008/08/07/the-newest-fangled-backformation/</link>
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		<title>Logography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a subject I&#8217;ve wanted to write about for quite some time, but the recent movie WALL-E has reminded me of the issue once again, and that is this: some people seem to think that logos are the ultimate guide to the orthography of some names.
Now, Bill Walsh has already covered this topic on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arrantpedantry.com/2008/07/13/logography/</link>
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		<title>Numbers and Hyphens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I got a letter from my phone company informing me that my area code will be switching to 10-digit dialing sometime next year. Several times the letter mentioned that we will have to start dialing &#8220;10-digits.&#8221; It was very consistent&#8212;every time the numeral 10 was followed by the noun &#8220;digits,&#8221; there was a hyphen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arrantpedantry.com/2008/06/02/numbers-and-hyphens/</link>
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