Today I faced quite a few unexpected events.
I was surprised by how much adding a trench coat to my nice slacks and button down shirt could do to make me feel more at home in the Financial Distrcit of Boston.
I was surprised to be buying my first ever lottery scratch cards.
I was surprised that I was purchasing them for work.
I was surprised that I was able to sign up for a gym membership for $10 a month with a sign up fee of only $1.
I was surprised that I had never before read White and Strunk's The Elements of Style, and that I had not realized that the said White was, in fact, E.B. White of Charlotte's Web fame.
I was surprised to learn that I had been making a fool of myself all these years by telling people that I was nauseous when I should have been saying I was nauseated.
I was surprised to find myself laughing at parts of The Elements of Style, and you may be surprised to find that you are my friend.
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- Lindsay Anne
- Pittsford, New York, United States
- It's true; the Oxford Comma is my favorite punctuation mark. And while most people aren't quite so fascinated by grammar, it's just part of my charm. So keep reading for my comings, goings, musings, and meanderings. Back posts are of my mission in the CRM and from here on out is my life in the "real world."
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7 comments:
This is the kind of information that makes me slap my palm against my forehead and makes me wonder how you graduated from middle school let alone have a college degree in English. Oh my. Do not share this post with anyone at your school.
You should pay more attention to me, because I have been using nauseated/nauseous correctly for well over a decade--probably two.
Let me blow your mind: White wrote for the New Yorker.
And if you REALLY want style fun: read THE KING'S ENGLISH: A GUIDE TO MODERN USAGE. I trust your BA can at least help you figure out the author to that.
Congrats on the trench--if I buy a coat in the next decade (didn't in the last), it will be a trench, I think. But I hope to NEVER fit in to any financial district.
I just heard about that book this last week too!! Lately I have been wishing I took that editing/business writing-english class after my mission when I was bound to remember something more. dang. I guess I should read that book then.
and what a steal on the gym membership. I am jealous.
Emily,
I really think it was more remiss of my teachers never to have assigned "The Elements of Style." Did you seriously expect me to just pick that up for a pleasure read? I've heard about it for a good decade and actually did learn the vast majority of what is in it while an Undergrad, but I never read the book itself. And I don't think it's unreasonable to not have known that White of White and Strunk was the same White as E.B. White when I red them 15+ years apart.
The trench was a jacket I picked up for $13. Sales at Old Navy, what can I say?
Lindsay
that gym deal is OUT OF CONTROL. Let me know if you need some good workout tunes, I have a great playlist. In the next week or so of course. :)
And WOW I can't believe you didn't read The Elements of Style. I have even read some of it OUT OF CURIOSITY. A year or two ago they released a fantastically stylish version. I almost bought it for you for Christmas, but assumed you must already have a copy. I should have followed my instincts.
This year you will get a potion from a witch doctor. ;)
Whoa, two emoticons in one message, far too many.
Sorry Linds--blaming the teacher doesn't work once you have graduated from elementary school. For someone who self-described her major as "editing" you definitely were remiss in your own education.
nauseous means you're making people sick...which i always thought sounded like way more fun than actually being nauseated.
I think we are missing the point here - maybe we all make people nauseated, k? And they're too darn polite to say it.
Please, when you are walking around in your sexy trench and going the gym and going to the cool church building -- do not mention elements of style wordisms...you can do better. I know it.
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