Donna Lowe
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Donna Lowe
•Between adjectives whose order can be swapped (“He was a kind, generous man”).
Emmy J. Favilla • A World Without "Whom"
1982 [the first recorded instance of the digital emoticon]
Emmy J. Favilla • A World Without "Whom"
“Everybody who speaks English decides together what’s a word and what’s not a word. Every language is just a group of people who are trying to understand each other...
Emmy J. Favilla • A World Without "Whom"
•Do not use an apostrophe when a word is primarily descriptive rather than possessive: e.g., homeowners association, kids department, teachers college, writers room. [The word is acting more like an adjective than a possessive noun.]
Emmy J. Favilla • A World Without "Whom"
Repeat after me: If we speak that way, it’s okay to write that way.
Emmy J. Favilla • A World Without "Whom"
it’s generally a safe bet to hyphenate the following: •Compound modifiers consisting of two or more adjectives that precede a noun and act as a single idea, like silly-looking monster (to differentiate from a jovial monster whose primary responsibility is to look).
Emmy J. Favilla • A World Without "Whom"
Traditionally, curly (or so-called “smart”) quotes have had a use distinct from straight (also called “regular” or the not-so-nice “dumb”) quotes. Pairs of the former are used to enclose quoted material—and they’re “smart” enough to know when to open a quote and when to close it, hence the moniker—while the latter should be reserved for, say, the s
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Leonard Bernstein’s Tanglewood sermon was intended to send the young musicians off with high hopes:
.. It's the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers, who will ultimately save us, who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams. Only the artists can turn the "Not-Yet" into reality. All right, how do you do it? L... See more
.. It's the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers, who will ultimately save us, who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams. Only the artists can turn the "Not-Yet" into reality. All right, how do you do it? L... See more
“Musicals…are often put together at the last moment by many gifted people operating in a creative panic.” - Humphrey Burton, in his biography of Leonard Bernstein