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Aug. 9th, 2009 03:54 pmTop Five Linguistic Misconceptions (from
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- The "passive voice" is evil. (This is particularly annoying among the lawyers who usually have extremely good reasons for using the passive voice.)
- "They" can't be used as a singular pronoun.
- It's possible to not have an accent.
- Accents or dialects (like African American Vernacular American English) indicate laziness and low intelligence.
- Languages other than English are a threat to the United States.
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- Pardon my French, but Cameron is so tight that if you stuck a lump of coal up his ass, in two weeks you'd have a diamond.
- Why are we wearing bras on our heads?
- Keep the change ya filthy animal!
- This is no longer a vacation. It's a quest. It's a quest for fun.
- I don't have to runaway and live in the street. I can runaway and I can go to the ocean, I can go to the country, I can go to the mountains. I could go to Israel, Africa, Afghanistan.
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- Lie in bed, tight under covers, listening to the rain outside.
- Start a jigsaw puzzle in the grey light from the windows, moving lamps to the table as the day passes.
- Read a book you loved when you were a child.
- Order in, and tip heavily.
- Walk outside barefoot, soaking the hems of your jeans.
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- Lawry's Seasoning Salt
- Goya Adobo con Pimienta
- Chocolate Mint (peppermint cultivar)
- Cinnamon
- Sage picked wild in the Santa Monica Mountains
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