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grammargirl

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Grammar Girl. Podcaster. New York Times bestselling author. Quick and Dirty Tips founder. Bad skier. California. she/her

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grammargirl, to random
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Any "Dune" fans here?

Tomorrow I'm interviewing big-time audiobook narrator Scott Brick, who narrates the "Dune" books, and Kevin J. Anderson who has written many "Dune" books.

Do you have any questions you'd like me to ask them (I'm especially interested in questions about the language of "Dune").

grammargirl,
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@EJGilbert Will do. Thanks!

grammargirl,
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@ianRobinson Thanks!

grammargirl,
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@SebastianBlanco Wow, that's a great tidbit and question! I have it in my notes to ask now. Thanks.

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I get to do one of my favorite things today — reading a bunch of reference books to find fun facts to share!

OurLostArcade, to random
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Who’s afraid of the jukebox?

The coin-op industry was incredibly reluctant to accept the term “juke box” when it first took root in the 1940s.

This was mostly due to the first part of that word – let’s have a little etymological discussion.

grammargirl,
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@EclecticLee @OurLostArcade Cool, thanks!

jeffjarvis, to random
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Congratulations to Ken Doctor and the team at Lookout Santa Cruz for recognition of their pathbreaking journalism. He's investing in news while the competition (hedge fund Alden) is not. And it shows. Bravo. https://lookout.co/lookout-santa-cruz-wins-pulitzer-prize-for-breaking-news-reporting/

grammargirl,
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@jeffjarvis Wow, that's fabulous news!

carbis, to random
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@grammargirl is there any way at all I can listen to your podcast without ads? Or at least without inserted targeted ads?

grammargirl,
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@carbis We're working on it! I hope to have an option for people in a month or so. (If it were up to me alone, you'd already have it.)

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Old English had some beautiful and poetic compound words such as "heaven candle" for "sun."

Hana Videen of @OEWordhord and I talked about those and more in our interview about her new book about words for animals in medieval times, "The Deorhord."

LISTEN: https://pod.link/173429229

READ: https://lnkd.in/g_eRfTJT

WATCH: https://lnkd.in/gs8ArseH

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grammargirl,
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@uliwitness @OEWordhord Nice!

grammargirl, to random
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I'm reviewing the video for Thursday's interview show with Eli Burnstein (another good one!), and it occurred to me that all these hours of watching video of myself are some kind of therapy.

I use to hate watching video of myself, but now I'm just like, this is what I look like, this is my personality, these are my weird mannerisms, and I'm OK with it.

grammargirl, to random
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What? In Old English times, people thought whales were evil? 🐳

Hana Videen of @OEWordhord explains the folklore behind this surprising belief and more in the latest Grammar Girl podcast. I loved all the fascinating little tidbits in this episode!

LISTEN: https://pod.link/173429229

READ: https://grammar-girl.simplecast.com/episodes/videen/transcript

WATCH: https://youtu.be/g5z6keqED2s

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grammargirl,
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@WolfIsMe @OEWordhord Isn't that great! I love that story.

grammargirl,
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@AccordionBruce @OEWordhord Amazing! I took a class in college that touched a bit on the apocrypha, and the stories like that were wild. I remember a lot of killing-with-lightning kinds of events. My professor would hold out her hands, wiggle her fingers, and say "bzzt."

grammargirl, to random
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I just reviewed my interview with Hana Videen that will come out tomorrow, and I hope all of you are enjoying the interviews as much as I am.

I freaking love having an excuse to talk to all these interesting language people!

GottaLaff, to Canada
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House hunting in remotely with our twins as our eyes, ears, using FaceTime is... novel.

It sure beats driving 1200 miles on a whim like we did a month ago.

grammargirl,
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@GottaLaff We've done that a few times, often asking, "What does it smell like?"

grammargirl,
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@tiamat271 @GottaLaff @chefraven 🤣

grammargirl, to random
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My favorite bookstore in Reno is closing. I'm just gutted (and I don't even live there anymore).

It was a fabulous place and had been in business for 39 years. I did book signings there and everyone knew me. They don't say why they are closing. It may just be that the owner wants to retire, but it's such a loss for the community.

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Three style guides have put out guidance on how to cite AI, and they have a lot of interesting advice beyond just what should be italicized, and so on.

This might be an episode where you want to read the transcript or watch the YouTube video, though, if you actually do want to see the details of the citation styles. I've included examples of all three.

LISTEN: https://pod.link/173429229
READ: https://grammar-girl.simplecast.com/episodes/ai-critters/transcript
WATCH: https://youtu.be/_Mh3Th-FYIg

grammargirl, to ai
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Draftsmith just released the results of a survey of ~500 language professionals on .

"The number of people who have little or no use for AI vastly outweigh the early adopters. Fear and cynicism outweigh the optimists."

"AI may be good for bringing low levels of language skill up to mediocre. But beating professionals at their own superpower is far harder."

Those were a couple of lines that jumped out at me. Find more at https://draftsmith.ai/blog/the-complex-truth-about-ai-and-language-professionals

grammargirl,
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@nobilis The top concern was actually copyright infringement.

grammargirl,
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@WordsByWesInk I see what you mean. There's fear for sure, but cynicism is a stretch. It seems more like a lack of interest to me as I reread it.

grammargirl, to random
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Does your inner "grammando" ever get the best of you? It happens to us all. 🤣

Hear more of Anne Curzan's delightful stories in this week's Grammar Girl podcast. We also talked about why Benjamin Franklin hated the word "colonize" and how having a laser focus on language led to Anne accidentally (and hilariously) asking her students an inappropriate question.

LISTEN: https://pod.link/173429229

READ: https://grammar-girl.simplecast.com/episodes/curzan/transcript

WATCH: https://youtu.be/uZtNOERMY8g

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grammargirl,
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@thecorefiles Thank you!

grammargirl, to random
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If you hear someone say, “My car needs warshed,” you know you’re in the Midland dialect territory.

grammargirl,
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@jsit So interesting! Thanks for making the clip.

grammargirl,
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@jsit Interesting. That one sounds standard to me. I'd say "or anything like that."

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