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You haven't spent much time on my dad's street.

What a difference 20 years makes. The Kent State massacre occurred in 1970, when I was 23. In 1950, I was 3 & living in Kent, where my dad taught at Kent State University. We lived in a rented house next to the funeral parlor on Maine St. -- when the circus came to town, the elephants paraded down the street right in front of our house, each holding the tail of the one in front with its trunk. We moved from Kent when I was 5 but I have many happy memories of it -- very hard to believe what happened there later (I like my elephants better).

If Lugal is British, they use which where Americans would (or should) use that, & without a comma before.

Not in the circles I move in, thank goodness!

Good grief -- this is one of those WWWST! (what would Wm Safire think!) moments. But I sure as hell refuse to ever use it (not that I could pronounce it, of course)!

It takes 2 -- 1 to write what's on the teleprompter & 1 to read it. To his credit, the reporter didn't stutter or even hesitate -- I hate to think that the "word" is familiar to everyone (or even anyone) except me.

Controversy in Calif over closing part of a road to cars & trucks, making it available only to bikes & foot traffic. Or, as someone put it on tonight's TV news show: "The most extensive pedestrianization project to date". I know that my priorities may be considered misplaced, but I find it impossible to focus on substantive issues surrounding road closures when I'm confronted by such blatant assaults on grammar! 🙀

I agree -- can we vote for this outcome?

Buffoons abound! Zelensky is the only dignified person present. It's like a Marx Bros movie, except they were funny.

This is very far from my biggest grammatical pet peeve, but I find myself noticing it lately (perhaps due to its constant repetition, which is equally annoying): "I feel like ...". Not only should it be "I feel as if" or "I feel as though", but this phrase seems to be applied to pretty much everything, whereas most of the objects cited are not properly subject to feelings. I'm reminded of my law school teacher in Contracts 101 lecturing that we should never refer to our feelings: No one cares about how you feel, only your legal analysis matters -- never say "I feel" when you could say "I think"!

General Mills used to be cereal -- now, it's more than that.

And Ben Bradlee. Watergate would never happen today.😾

I lived in a tiny town in NH for a year in the early '70s & I-93 was the only interstate highway through the state at that time (probably still is). The locals referred to it as "out on the superhighway".

I'm not religious at all but he seems like a very decent man who's always tried hard to do good, like Jimmy Carter. I hope he recovers well, though I do think he's done more than his part & deserves a rest.

Cloud9Shopper, as a Catholic, are you not concerned about the Pope's health? I don't want to pry, I'm just curious.