So 'dul, our brilliant artist, won a $2000 grant.

He opened the letter last night, at Jenn's birthday. By his reaction, I actually thought it was bad news at first. But it's not, so we're all happy/proud.

And, because I feel I should fill this entry up with more sentences, I'll possibly be sending out Christmas cards later. If you want one, send your address to conuly@livejournal.com. I've changed my normal email address, I won't get it if you send it to the hotmail account. Also, if you want you can request a three kings card, hang it over your door for good luck.

Daily Kos article.

Here.

( Quotes )

Okay, just quotes, no commentary. Me bored.

And a pair of linkies here, from metaquotes

First the article

( With my commentary )

And now the reply from Metaquotes!

Seriously, read the article.

I'm not sure what I think of this...

A link on theferret's journal...

It's the link I care about, not the entry or the comments, really.

Edit: That's not true, I *am* sure what I think about it, but I'm waiting to be rational to talk about it. Somebody didn't get enough sleep last night...

And another article! I'm on a roll today.

( Article inside )

So, today we did peer editing in English.

And the person I was working with is a non-native speaker from somewhere in the former Soviet Union, so there were a lot of mistakes (not all non-native speakers make a lot of mistakes, but she did, so).

One of them was "quitted" for quit, and I pointed this out to her specifically, thinking to explain the rule behind it so that she could generalize instead of memorizing long lists of words. So I said that "generally, but not always, verbs that end in it or et don't take -ed in the past tense". Which is true - set, hit, fit, knit, quit, let, bet, wet, pet....

But after I said it, I realized that it's not at all true, as far as I can tell, for words of more than one syllable - omit, abet, submit... okay, most of the ones I can think of end in -mit and have to do with sending. And I guess there's reset. But the question still remains: why doesn't this rule apply for two syllable words?

Related to my last post...

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