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Google News is pissing me off

Topic: CrankinessMy browser's home page is Google news, and when I am signed in, it gives me a list of "personalized" news stories that are supposedly based on my previous searches and news. Yet it...

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Hot for Chronological Accuracy

Topic: EtymologyCrankinessI have mixed feelings about Hotforwords. On the plus side, she's talking about language, she generally does some research, and she seems to have a clue about linguistic...

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Do me a favor

Topic: CrankinessGrammarPrescriptivismThe next time you start bitching about "grammatical errors" that set your teeth on edge, have the decency to make the things you complain about actual issues of...

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You're doing it wrong

Topic: CrankinessSyntaxRandall Munroe is a smart guy, but to me it looks like he flubbed the punchline here in the latest XKCD: Grammatically, there's no actual indication that the speaker here is...

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