Merry Christmas to Nathan and everyone at Cheap Caffeine!
(gotta love those Victorian Christmas cards)
https://i2.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/victorianxmasOTHERDEADBIRD.jpg?fit=750%2C497&type=vertical&ssl=1
https://i2.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Murder-Frog.jpg?resize=600%2C425&type=vertical
And so, the Linguistic Critic’s Curse is perpetuated, whereby anyone who calls attention to issues of spelling or grammar inevitably makes some related blunder in the process of their critique.
I would love to say that that was intentional, but… I spent so much time triple-checking my spelling of “Hooppole”…
Wonder if any mail for Hooppole ends up in Hop Pole, Linclonshire? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hop_Pole
AKA “Muphry’s Law” (no, really) 🙂
The trees are really sneezing today.
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Ericb
Merry Christmas to Nathan and everyone at Cheap Caffeine!
(gotta love those Victorian Christmas cards)
https://i2.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/victorianxmasOTHERDEADBIRD.jpg?fit=750%2C497&type=vertical&ssl=1
https://i2.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Murder-Frog.jpg?resize=600%2C425&type=vertical
PCachu
And so, the Linguistic Critic’s Curse is perpetuated, whereby anyone who calls attention to issues of spelling or grammar inevitably makes some related blunder in the process of their critique.
Nathan
I would love to say that that was intentional, but… I spent so much time triple-checking my spelling of “Hooppole”…
dtw
Wonder if any mail for Hooppole ends up in Hop Pole, Linclonshire? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hop_Pole
dtw
AKA “Muphry’s Law” (no, really) 🙂
RK
The trees are really sneezing today.
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