aShademan

July 18, 2006

{daily.observations} Correct English

I came across the Common Errors in English webpage (http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/), when googled for "English" (in case you were wondering, google is a verb now. http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/google). In fact, that page is ranked first with the google page ranking (TM) system.

"A clothes dryer makes the clothes drier." That's how you should use DRYER and DRIER! Anyways, this sentence is not globally true, e.g., it is false if you dry your clothes in my dryer. After "drying", the clothes are not drier (as wet as they used to be after washing). That token-sucking useless son of an engineer!

Have you noticed how elegantly I used "engineer" as a degrading noun? Is there such a thing as a "degrading" noun? How did you understand (did you?) what I meant by using "engineer"? Are we learning by context?

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