October 28, 2010 – 11:36 pm
Mamacita says: Today’s giggle: Pronouns. There are three pronoun persons: Person speaking (first person) Person spoken to (second person) and Third Person (person spoken about.) Grammar is a soap opera, remember. I told YOU about HIM. All pronouns must match their antecedents in many ways: singular with singular, plural with plural, masculine with masculine, feminine [...]
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September 15, 2010 – 12:05 am
Mamacita says: It’s 2:30 in the morning, and I have to get up in a few hours and go to school, and be all enthusiastic about punctuation. The thing is, I AM enthusiastic about punctuation. It’s important. It tell us when to pause, and when to stop. It tells us when to end a sentence [...]
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September 13, 2010 – 12:05 am
Mamacita says: This is my favorite Picasso*, and it hangs in the foyer of my home. I’ve loved it for many years; a copy hung in the men’s side of my college dorm, (I still love you, Willkie Co-op!) and it used to fascinate me. The print. The print fascinated me. It just happened to [...]
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Mamacita says: Whatever you do for a living, and particularly if you work in education, I think it is of vital importance that you try to keep up with what’s going on in that area. I work in education and social media, and I go to every conference I can afford, and even some I [...]
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Mamacita says: I love grammar. I love the logic of it. I love how there is a name and purpose for each word in a sentence. I love how it takes a little intellect to put a good sentence together. I love the almost mathematical precision of a good sentence, coupled with the brilliance of [...]
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Mamacita says: Some of this was first posted on June 30, 2007, but my opinion hasn’t changed since then, and I’ve added a few more opinionated Mamacita-isms. Are you surprised? I didn’t think you would be. “No two people are alike, and both of them are damn glad of it.” That’s a quotation; that’s not [...]
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Mamacita says: There’s no actual theme for this week’s Quotation Saturday; it’s full of random wordbytes of wisdom. Oh, and if you don’t see any wisdom, you’re not looking closely enough. Oh, and you know what “they” say. . .that’s the omnipotent antecedentless “they” of the ages. . .if you are offended by a quotation, [...]
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October 20, 2009 – 7:37 pm
Mamacita says: By popular demand – and I really had no idea I was popular at all – here are the answers to the literature quiz of a few weeks ago. I would have posted this sooner, but teachers asked me to wait a little while as they were using this post in their classes. [...]
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October 8, 2009 – 5:29 pm
Mamacita says: Midterms are next week. Bummer. You see, I really like most of my students, and it makes me sad to see so many of them stressing over their midterm tests. Some of my students have several different midterm exams in the same week, which really puts the crunch on their time and nerves. [...]
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September 18, 2009 – 10:23 pm
Mamacita says: I first encountered Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Spring and Fall and Robert Burns’ John Anderson, My Jo in a college course. Unfortunately, the professor was a jaded, bored, boring man who considered himself far too important to be teaching a group of eager undergrads, and who turned every selection into a joke. Both poems, [...]
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