Literal Barrage

…Or your vocabulary will become your master. Or summat like that, I dunno.
Seems as though Aron was terribly, mysteriously ahead of the curve when he called out our current crop of politicians for their overuse of The Sphinx's favorite rhetorical device. Slate has put a name to the tactic (it's called antimetabole, [...]

Before I begin, I should admit to a bit of personal Grammar Naziism; that is to say, I generally have little tolerance for people who don't take the time to learn to use proper punctuation, spelling and grammar and thus inflict linguistic atrocities upon those of us that do care about such matters. Thus [...]

I used to be regularly derided by friends and acquaintances of all stripe for my use of "SAT words", generally defined as words that do not see regular use in the populace at large and thus achieve a "nerdy" gloss. In fact, so distinct is my proclivity towards these sorts of words that they [...]

We (mistakenly) received this envelope in the mail yesterday. Who can spot the problem?
Hint: The text reads "Your FREE address labels are enclosed. Please honor America's paralyzed vets by using them."
(Extra hint: I thought we already did this at Walter Reed!)

A colleague was drafting a memo to send out company-wide today and forwarded it to me for review. The copy was mostly good, although he referenced several "servers that will be effected by ongoing work" or somesuch. I replied that, while the memo itself was good, I had a grammatical bone to pick: [...]

Jeff Harrell asks an interesting question: what is the proper plural form of "MacBook Pro"? Is it like "attorneys general", as in "MacBooks Pro", or is the far more pedestrian "MacBook Pros"? The world, sadly, may never kn… wait, it's already been asked, and answered? Ahhh, the Internet.

Now this is cool: sniglets is the overarching term that has been adopted for words that ought to be in the dictionary yet aren't, such as:
"Aqualibrium (ak wa lib' re um) - n. The point where the stream of drinking fountain water is at its perfect height, thus relieving the drinker from (a) having to [...]