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- My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, 'University Challenge,' so you can see what kind of sad person I am.
- Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.
- The rule is: don’t use commas like a stupid person. I mean it.
- I recently heard of someone studying the ellipsis (or three dots) for a PhD. And, I have to say, I was horrified. The ellipsis is…
- ...when a phone call competes for attention with a real-world conversation, it wins. Everyone knows the distinctive high-and-dry feeling of being abandoned for a phone…
- Offence is so easily given. And where the 'minority' issue is involved, the rules seem to shift about: most of the time a person who…
- The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now have…
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