Thursday, March 24, 2011
Don't Be Afraid Of The Ligatures
I hate it when people use "nebulas" instead of "nebulae." Yes, both are correct in English, and I'm a proud laissez-faire descriptivist, but damn hypocrisy: USE THE LATIN PLURAL! Oh, and it's "archaeology," not "archeology"! (But "encyclopedia" instead of "encyclopaedia" is fine. Hey, I'm already being inconsistent, so I might as well go with it!)
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Haha, we all have our problems with it. I do to my best to be descriptive, much to my prescriptive technical writer sister's chagrin. I will always be more serious than necessary for a/an use.
Oh, "an historic(al)" makes my blood boil!
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