
If you can't bare to read this sentence because it effects you negatively, than your going to wont to visit
Learn Your Damn Homophones, which is a nice compliment to the
Economist's stylish "
Dos and Don'ts" of writing.Learn Your Damn Homophones is awesomely hilarious. It tackles affect vs. effect, compliment vs. complement, discreet vs. discrete, and even versus vs. verses-and with panache. Although flawless grammar is by no means the be-all and end-all of good writing, bad grammar can severely obfuscate any idea a writer intends to communicate. I'm astonished at how poorly I understand (and how often I mangle) the English language. So I'll take any help (and laughs) I can get
.Via HTML Giant. Grammar afficionados might remember that site's David Foster Wallace-inspired Grammar Challenge from last year (read: December), which proved difficult for its very literate commenters.
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