DINOSAURS, GRAVY, AND GRAMMAR.

August 10, 2006 by languagehat 18 Comments

I’ve allowed my love of gravy to distract from my prescriptivist linguistic crusade!
And now you know how to improve your chances of getting into heaven. (Many thanks to John Emerson, also known to be operating under the alias of The New Yorker, for the tip.)

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Bambo says

August 10, 2006 at 10:17 am

Hee! is This one (hope I did the html correctly) has been stuck on my fridge for at least a year. (Warning: it does contain profanity. And the use of ’til.)
zhoen says

August 10, 2006 at 12:16 pm

Vindaloo gravy!
language hat says

August 10, 2006 at 1:36 pm

Bambo: Your HTML was fine except that you neglected to put quotes around the URL (don’t worry, I fixed it for you with my godlike editing powers).
justin says

August 10, 2006 at 8:13 pm

im guessing its for stylistic reasons, but the fact that all the headers or your entries are written in all caps looks really ummm distracting when i read it via RSS, cant you make it so the CSS code is doing the capitolizing and then it wont get picked up by RSS (maybe im wrong on the css bit, dunno) but it makes me wanna not read the site
Bambo says

August 11, 2006 at 2:20 pm

LH: D’oh! And thanks.
language hat says

August 11, 2006 at 4:05 pm

justin: I don’t like your all-lower-case style either. Different strokes, and all that.
Bambo: My pleasure!
The New Yorker says

August 11, 2006 at 10:30 pm

we have a rare Hater of Caps here, a species thought extinct since archie and e e chicked into their respective roach motels.
“Hater of Caps” is an especially good name for these folk, no?
Andrew Dunbar says

August 13, 2006 at 11:22 am

“Header” used in place of “heading” seems to be a current meme. Has anybody else noticed it or am I simply ignorant of them being valid synonyms?
John-Peter Creighton says

August 17, 2006 at 4:46 am

Ah, I know what I want for dinner tonight! Vindaloo and a good red wine.
How’s life been, Hat?
language hat says

August 17, 2006 at 8:11 am

Up and down, up and down. But the heat has abated and I just got a new book to edit, so it couldn’t be better!
Hans says

May 28, 2024 at 5:48 pm

This post came up as random link. The link in Hat’s OP has succumbed to the ravages of time…
languagehat says

May 28, 2024 at 6:12 pm

Thanks for the heads-up; I fixed it. Dinosaur Comics is immortal!
Hans says

May 29, 2024 at 2:34 am

Yes, it’s astonishing that the guy still is able to come up with funny ideas for that limited format frequently after what, over 20 years?
Stu Clayton says

May 29, 2024 at 10:01 am

Dino-Demo.
Y says

May 29, 2024 at 1:21 pm

Eh. Dinos shminos. The Angriest Dog in the World was there first.
languagehat says

May 29, 2024 at 1:45 pm

Fuck their “super limited edition of 500 copies.” I remember reading it when it came out, and I’m satisfied with my memories.
David Marjanović says

May 29, 2024 at 5:44 pm

Dino-Demo.

Above, on topic: Hutbürger! A Wutbürger wearing a hat!
Stu Clayton says

May 29, 2024 at 5:54 pm

Würgbürger are hard to stomach.

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