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VotePair.org provides an online forum aimed at winning electoral votes for presidential candidate John F. Kerry without impacting the plural vote for progressives such as Independent candidate Ralph Nader, Green party candidate David Cobb and Libertarian candidate Michael Badnarik...
...expressions and repeats them endlessly, circumscribing our understanding of world events in narrow ways. The word “media” itself is a pervasive expression that cheats us of a better conceptualization of its object, particularly important as our source of information about the world. Originally the plural of medium, Latin simply for middle, mean, “media” in its current usage is specifically derived from the expression mass medium, to define phenomena such as radio, television and newspapers. A sentence beginning with “the media,” then, is a sloppy...
...Landis (The Blues Brothers) spends a week with Bennett as he organizes and executes one such blowout. En route to the airport, Bennett struggles to remember where he's going--Memphis, Tenn.--while an assistant preps him on the local vernacular. ("Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural.") Once on the scene, though, the Slasher--a wiry, nervous guy, like Billy Bob Thornton with Tom Waits' rasp--thrums like a racing engine. "This is a show to me," he says, "not a sale." He struts around the lot wielding a toy chainsaw. There are pretty showgirls...
...sure to warm the hearts of would-be copy editors everywhere. Between You and I: A Little Book of Bad English. Another unapologetic linguistic curmudgeon, James Cochrane, skewers offenders who say "could of" instead of "could have" and confuse "amount" - to be used with nouns that have no plural - and "number" - to be used with nouns that can be enumerated...
...started off thinking that stamps were just for _________ (verb ending in “ing”) _________ (plural noun),” Nichols enthuses, “but then I saw this old stamp collection when I was surfing _________ (major online auction beginning in “e-”) one day and I had always wanted a hobby, so I bought it and _________ ! (exclamation) I was a stamp collector,” says Nichols as he segued to a thoughtful pause and cast his gaze through the window at the dying rays of a _________ (sunset color) sunset...