Best Blogs I Read This Week
Escalator Clause—Patricia O’Connor’s rant about the customer service buzzword “escalate” meaning to raise a problem or concern to a higher level.
There’s lots written about grammar rules that are just plain wrong—here’s a blog about rules that do matter. Learn them or find yourself in Grammar Hell.
Avoid Thundershower Activity: instead, be plain and direct: avoid thunderstorms instead. From Manage Your Writing by Kenneth W. Davis.
From the archives of Language Log, a linguist’s rant against the “rule” that says never start a sentence with “and.”
From Men with Pens, a fun tribute to the benefits of using exercise (and sex) to help overcome writer’s block.
A reminder from Zen Habits that Life is Poetry, and that we write our poem every day we live. It includes a beautiful poem by William Carlos Williams.
