A New Form of Comma Abuse?
Two unusual syntax errors in the past week have me curious about their origin and what it might mean.
Two unusual syntax errors in the past week have me curious about their origin and what it might mean.
Not being a person tightly tied to the Gregorian calendar, I have little use for new year’s resolutions and predictions, etc. Yet here I am, in the uncomfortable position of offering a prediction that could perhaps reach a tipping point as early as 2030.
It was a little embarrassing to discover recently—after multiple rereadings—that one of my favorite English novels contains clues about the language’s syntax in the late 18th–early 19th centuries.