Quote of the Day, Mister Language Person's Division

[bloodyrosemccoy]

“You just got Strunked!”

 

Today’s quote brought to you by Strunk & White’s Elements of Style, which expressly forbids verbing nouns and would probably burst into flames in the presence of someone verbing one of its authors’ names to mean “called on a flagrant grammatical error.”

 

Delicious, ain’t it?

Comments

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

And I have to admit that he bugs me. I much prefer somebody like Geoffrey Nunberg.