My most recent story, Dawn, talks a great deal about the implications of politeness held by the words you and thou. While the story teaches about the distinction between the words, and talks about how thou is insulting, if one was a linguistic nerd, one might wonder: why did the pronoun thou exist in the first place? Indeed, why is it that people see thou as being a formal word, if it was, in fact, so

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Rain, rain, go away,
Come back another day,

Words spoken mostly by the English. We've been getting it a lot lately, and towns and villages around the country have succumbed to flooding. I'm all for enjoying the rain, but there is such thing as too much rain. Still, I prefer it over sun. Give me rain / snow any day of the year, but, please, Mr Rain Cloud, learn some restraint. Don't make me come up there, mister!

Over the past 15 years, the proclaimed purpose of "English" classes at colleges and universities and in grades K-12 in America has shifted from teaching English or English literature to teaching "social justice". ("Social justice" in all cases turns out to mean "the ideology of Social Justice Warriors.")

Teaching for social justice with standards-based secondary English Language Arts curriculum

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Random thoughts on waking up on the morning after nightmare night.

One of the peculiarities of the English language is that the word cider can refer to either an intoxicating liquid made from fermented pressed apples; or a non-alcoholic unfermented beverage of the same juice. Anything sold as cider in Britain contains alcohol. In North America, it is, more often than not, the other sort.

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I want to talk about the principal dimensions of theories of art, but to do that, I must explain what I mean by "principal dimensions". Besides, you should learn this stuff anyway.

How to Recommend Stories if you're a computer

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Mr. Forsyth was my high school English teacher.

This is the best picture of him I can find, from the 1995 Yearbook

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Get them done near the end of your junior year. It sucks but it's worth it. Like I said before I suck at writing actual stories but I can write English essays pretty well. My English teacher, notorious for roasting people on their college essays, approved of mine on the second try. Maybe if I ever have a lot of time on my hands, I can contribute to the fandom by writing critical essays. Or I can roast help you guys with your English papers. My sister knew a

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Remember, don't support garbage like blm.

Support Canadian Truckers!
¡Apoyen A Los Camioneros Canadienses!

Long time no see – I’ve just finished a random piece of random randomness, yet with a lot of concepts and phrasings one may find intriguing enough. (I tried my best to translate as it is, honestly!) As it is said here: a fusion of tawdry political satire, Kafkaesque horror, and a school essay on biology.

Pictures from the Insects’ Life
by BecauseTheNight

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As a matter of fact ponies in Equestria speak English in the show. So let them speak more improved and interesting English than people on Earth.

For example, they may have two more future tenses: distant future and improbable future. The distant future is used to describe something that a speaker doesn’t expect to see alive. Example: The sun wess stop someday. The improbable future is used when a speaker doesn’t expect something to happen at all. Example: Celestia weast be sent to sun.

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So I'm studying up on Early Modern English (not Old English, mind you) in preparation for a short essay on how to write Luna-speak. Fun fact I found: "derring-do" (the inspiration for Daring Do, if you didn't get that), which is a noun usually meaning "adventurous nonsense" in today's usage (as far as I can tell), started out as a verb phrase way back in the sixteenth century, "dorryng do," which literally means "daring to do," and implied manhood and chivalry ("Robin Hood's awesome. He's

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I thought it was funny in my head.

Part 1: Magic and Science
Part 2: You Are Here!
Part 3: Phrase Functions and Parse
Part 4-1: Modifier Confusion

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Yeah, no.. Yeah.. It was bound to happen sometime.

First time to do any of this, so if you have ideas for future videos, let me know.

I plan on closing out Wooing soon, around six more chapters or so. These are up and coming stories and all are working titles.

Fluttershy SOL - When the Bough Breaks

Applejack - Dig In and Planted. - tentative ideas.

SunLight, Homecoming continuity - Chaos Theory

Around five more chapters each of my original works, Summer's Fury and Warriors of Faith

Azure - Into the Wilds

Rarity - Belle of the Ball

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Halfway through the winter semester, and I'm already seeing leaps and bounds in my understanding of the English language, thanks to university-level editing courses. Seeing the problems everyone has (and I had, for a long time) with grammar and punctuation and the like, I figured I would make a series of blog posts to finally make these concepts clear for the average Pony Joe Blow fanfic writer/editor/reader.

So let's try it, shall we?

Part 1: You Are Here!

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Part 1: Magic and Science
Part 2: Sentences, Phrases, and Clauses
Part 3: You Are Here!
Part 4-1: Modifier Confusion

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it's due today at midnight
worth 30% of my grade
and is technically my english final
so

yeah

And little did he know, it was a SALAD BAR! It was a trap! They lured him in with the aroma of a deep fat frier and cheese burgers!

The vegetarians rule supreme! Ah! AAHHH!

They've gotten one of ours, Ah! All fat people, roll away for dear life! They can't catch all of us! Quick, retreat back to headquarters at the junkyard where Fat Albert and The Cosby Kids hang out! Roll, Brethren, ROLL!