Today, I saw a headline that pretty much summed up what I think is fundamentally wrong about this society. On ATL Boy, they featured a story from American Idol Buzz that asks, “Who won American Idol? Scotty or Lauren?” As if. Needless to say, Scotty McCreary, the teen country singer, took home the [...] [...]
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Today I want to talk about a few more misused English words, which have come to my attention recently by people trying to defend their behavior: typo/misspelling: a typo (short for ‘typographical error’) is far different from a misspelling, and its occasional commission is not only excusable, but expected in this age, when the vast [...] [...] Okay, today we want to look at one of the GOP’s favorite little misleading rhetorical tricks, false parity. This is like the childish protest, “but EVERYODY’s doing it! or “he would have done it!” Whether a behavior (or motivation) is popular has nothing to do with its rightness, of course, and to claim [...] [...] Using Glenn Beck as an object lesson There are several different terms we need to understand in order to accurately analyze deceit. Most importantly, we need to understand that an untruth, or a falsehood, is not the same thing at all as a lie. The word “lie” implies specifically, a misleading argument made on [...] [...] |
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