Jim Baumann
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Grammar Moses: Fear of failure can make you a good spellerDec 10, 2023 6:46 am - I know that all of us have done or said something that continues to embarrass us decades later. I can safely say this, because no one younger than a couple decades old r...
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Grammar Moses: To be a good speller, don't memorize - analyzeDec 04, 2023 5:26 am - How do people learn good grammar? Likely the same way people learn to be good spellers. I just read a piece in The Washington Post by ninth-grader Dev Shah of Largo, Flo...
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To our readers: The importance of vetting photos in the age of AIDec 02, 2023 12:53 pm - "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is" needs a makeover. The phrase for today should be, "If it LOOKS too good to be true, it probably is." The emergence of ...
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Grammar Moses: What's wrong with a big, beautiful grammar column?Nov 25, 2023 4:14 pm - Boy, what I wouldn't give for a big, beautiful, delicious, juicy cheeseburger right about now. Or would it be a beautiful, juicy, delicious, big cheeseburger? That secon...
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Grammar Moses: Make it 2 shots of BOGO SOCO cuz YOLONov 18, 2023 4:07 pm - Do you sometimes feel like the world around you is speaking in code? Well, it is. I'm a word watcher, but every so often a "word" that is new to me pops up. My first rea...
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Grammar Moses: What did you just call me?Nov 12, 2023 11:19 pm - On a recent trip to Ireland, while driving through Galway, I spied a sign for Galwegian R.F.C., one of the big rugby teams in the country. I nearly drove on the right si...
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Grammar Moses: When bad grammar makes your heart raceNov 05, 2023 11:07 pm - I'd like to tell you that reading this column will make you feel better, and that might not just be wishful thinking. It might, however, offer the equivalent of patting ...
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Grammar Moses: Carry on, my wayward grammar columnistOct 29, 2023 11:59 pm - I've learned so much from reading books, but I've learned a lot from listening to music, too. Prince taught me the Lord's Prayer in his 1993 song "Controversy," for inst...
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Grammar Moses: You're a sight for sore eyesOct 21, 2023 5:04 pm - "What a sight!" I exclaimed as I gazed across the Cliffs of Moher on the west coast of Ireland. "I've never seen anything like this." A higher-up in the Chicago Bears or...
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Grammar Moses: The point is probably mootSep 30, 2023 5:07 pm - Opinion Page Editor Jim Slusher told me of a recent conversation he had with regular guest columnist Keith Peterson regarding Peterson's use of "moot." Although Keith of...