Language

Your language is essentially

I bumped into a list of 1000 "Essentialist Explanations" in the form "Language X is essentially language Y under conditions Z". Here are a few of my favorites: Basque is essentially the distance between kaixo and agur. English is essentially the language of people who think

English language

Errors in English up with which you should not put

A list of non-errors in English: "Those usages people keep telling you are wrong but which are actually standard in English." - including not ending a sentence with a preposition. Link (via kottke). The author of the site would prefer that you start here. I cannot say enough

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