what if i just stopped spelling it epitome (confusing, difficult to remember, i always mispronounce it the first time) abd started spelling it epitomy (understandable, easy to predict, likely will not embarrass me in front of my peers)? what are u going to arrest me

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Collected from articles by Doug Ritter and Dave Workman about Gun Rights News on Ammoland Inc.

Draconian Knife Ban Bill Rises from the Dead in Washington.

Washington state’s draconian knife ban bill from last year, SB 5098, has reared its ugly head again, as we told you might happen.

SB433 would absolutely ban carry, open or concealed, of most knives, and all knives in many public places in Hawaii.

However, House Bill 2521 allows the Washington State Patrol (WSP) to adjust its background check fees by setting “an amount reasonably calculated to cover the direct and indirect costs to the Washington state patrol incurred in administering the firearm background check program.”

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About Doug Ritter

Doug Ritter is an award-winning journalist and authority in the areas of survival and survival equipment, a successful knife designer and the founder and Chairman of Knife Rights. Knife Rights (www.KnifeRights.org) is America’s grassroots knife owners organization, forging a Sharper Future for all knife owners. Knife Inc.

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WA Dems Ram Through Background Check Fee Hike, Sheriff Silencing Bills

Unit 142 Phrasal verbs 6 up/down

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Unit 141 Phrasal verbs 5 on/off (2)

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Punctuation Tales: The Amazing Abbreviation Machine (2007)

Story: Justin McCory Martin – Art: Mike Moran

Not even the Oxford comma could save this man. He’s going to have a very busy day.

Y'know what, I’m combining “there”, “Their”, and “They’re” because fuck you.

Theiy’re

I hope you’re happy 😤

You need an additional word in there, admin. Because as is, it sounds like one big happy family.

Petition to add an ‘a’ to every word that contains 'eu’ just to make english worse. 'Euarope’ 'neautral’

Chinese structures: A不B Part 1.

Chinese has many everyday phrases built on this pattern, like 输不起 and 舍不得. They can be confusing as some are literal verb phrases e.g. 忘不了(unable to forget), whereas some don’t have the exact same meaning e.g. 了不得 (amazing or incredible).

Here are some of the most common ones:

• 看不起 - kàn bu qǐ/瞧不起 - qiáo bu qǐ - to look down on, disdainful, to despise, to think little of
• Example: 别看不起别人 - Don’t look down on other people
• 买不起 - mǎi bu qǐ - can’t afford to buy
• Example: 这房子太贵了，我买不起 - This house is too expensive, I can’t afford it.
• 输不起 - shū bu qǐ - can’t afford to lose, can’t accept defeat/losing, a sore loser
• Example: 他输不起，会生气 - He can’t handle losing, he gets angry.
• 伤不起 - shāng bu qǐ - can’t afford to get hurt but also has the meaning of unbearable, something being just the worst
• Example: 最近工作太累了，真的伤不起 - Work’s been exhausting lately, I really can’t take it anymore/can’t bear it
• 对不起 - duì bu qǐ - sorry, to let someone down
• Example: 对不起，我迟到了 - Sorry, I’m late.
• 玩不起 - wán bu qǐ - can’t afford to play, can’t handle the consequences/stakes
• Example: 你要是玩不起，就别开始 - If you can’t handle it, don’t start.
• 了不起 - liǎo bu qǐ - amazing, impressive, remarkable etc
• Example: 他每天五点起床跑步，了不起。He runs every morning at five, that’s admirable.
• 惹不起 - rě bu qǐ - can’t afford to provoke, don’t dare to mess with someone/anger someone
• Example: 这种客户太难搞，我惹不起 - Clients like this are too difficult, I don’t dare to get involved with them/mess with them.
• 忍不住 - rěn bu zhù - can’t help but do something, can’t bear
• Example: 那只猫忍不住坐在我刚叠好的衣服上 - That cat can’t help but sit on my freshly folded laundry.
• 憋不住 - biē bu zhù - can’t hold back
• Example: 他憋不住秘密 - He can’t keep a secret.
• 戳不住 - chuō bu zhù - can’t bear, can’t stand firm, slang meaning of being incapable/incompetent of doing something
• Example: 他戳不住别人说他 - He can’t handle people criticizing him.
• 打不住 - dǎ bu zhù - this has a few different meanings: 1. insufficient 2., something exceeding the standard/budget/limit 3. something is uncontrollable/can’t be stopped
• Examples: 这顿饭十块钱打不住 - Ten yuan definitely won’t be enough for this meal.
• 这么点时间打不住 - This amount of time isn’t enough.
• 这事要是打不住，就麻烦了 - If this situation can’t be brought under control, it’ll cause trouble.
• 靠不住 - kào bu zhù - unreliable
• Example: 天气预报有时候靠不住 - Weather forecasts aren’t always reliable.
• 备不住 - bèi bu zhù - perhaps, possibly, used to also indicate uncertainty
• Example: 你再想想，备不住还有办法 - Think again, maybe there’s still a solution.

Unit 140 Phrasal verbs 4 on/off (1)

140.1

1 It was getting dark, so I put the light on.

2 It was getting cold, so I put the heating on.

3 I wanted to bake a cake, so I put on the oven.

4 I wanted to make some tea, so I put on the kettle.

5 I wante to relax, so I put some music on.

140.2

1 It was hot in the cinema, so I took off my jacket.

2 What are all these people doing? What’s going on?

3 The weather was too bad for the plane to take off, so the flight was delayed.

4 Rachel got into her car and drove (went) off at high speed.

5 Tom is too thin. He needs to put on weight.

6 We spent the whole day walking. We set off at eight am and walked for ten hours.

7 Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

8 They’ve changed their minds about getting married. The wedding has been called off.

9 Are you cold? Shall I get you a sweater to put on?

10 I tried on some jeans in the shop, but they were too tight.

11 When I go away, I prefer to be alone at the station or airport. I don’t like it when people come to see me off.

12 I need to make an appointment to see the dentist, but I keep putting it off.

140.3

1 Her hands were cold, so she put her gloves on.

2 The plane took off at five to eleven.

3 Maria tried on the hat, but it was too big for her.

4 The match was called off because of the weather.

5 Mark’s parents went to the airport to see him off.

6 He took his sunglasses out of his pocket and put them on.

I keep trying to use the wrong version of your/you’re. I am a failure of a writer.

seeing old classmates post things make you realise it really was that grammar checker on laptops..

PSA

“Weary” means “tired” and rhymes with “theory”

“Wary” means “cautious” and rhymes with “scary”

alright yall, as my friend group’s go-to essay editor, I’m going to list out a few rules that have been really useful to me in uni-level writing (formal writing, not creative) because I’ve only recently started noticing how much it helps to have these as guides. Shoutout to my high school Lit teacher for drilling most of these into my head, because now I get so few grammar/phrasing corrections from professors.

1. Always follow the word “this” with a noun, specifically the noun you’re trying to describe. If you say “this demonstrates x” — what is demonstrating x??? It’s like pointing at empty space. Tell the reader exactly what you’re talking about, otherwise it’s easy to assume you’re being vague because you have no idea what you’re talking about.
   Same rule applies to “these” for the plural form btw!!!
2. Don’t end sentences with prepositions and conjunctions. I’ve been led to believe this is an old-fashioned rule and easy to flout, but I honestly do think it elevates my writing and forces me to rephrase my sentences with intention. “The qualities that the state has authority over” is a phrase that reads kind of clunky — it makes sense if you say it out loud, I guess, but the sentence structure on-page is a little weird. fFom here it’s pretty easy to rearrange into “the qualities over which the state has authority,” and even though it’s a bit less conventional to say out loud, it’s a bit easier to follow on paper.
3. This might apply more to literature essays than anything else, but don’t use gerunds or gerundives without a possessive case before them. Or just don’t use them at all.
   (quick grammar lesson: gerunds are verb forms that function like nouns and end with “-ing,” like “running” in the sentence “Running is hard.”)
   For example, if I were to say something like “Beth dying is a major plot point in Little Women,” this would be incorrect because “dying” is acting as the noun even though it’s a verb. The correct way to phrase this would be “Beth’s dying is a major plot point,” but this obviously can read in a very clunky way and sounds unnatural. So it’s smarter to avoid the issue with gerundives altogether and say “Beth’s death” instead.
   In the example sentence “Running is hard,” this rule doesn’t apply because you aren’t talking about a specific person that runs. The gerund can just act like a noun there. But when you’re referring to an action that someone performs, that “someone” should be in a possessive form before the action.
4. When you have a compound sentence, you include a comma if the clause after the conjunction is independent, but you don’t if it’s dependent — note that this applies SPECIFICALLY for the FANBOYS conjunctions (for, and, nor, but, or yet, so). Take that sentence as an example: “You include a comma if the clause after the conjunction if the clause after the conjunction is independent, but you don’t if it’s dependent.” The conjunction here is the “but,” and there is a comma before it because the following clause — “you don’t if it’s dependent” is independent and therefore can stand on its own like a sentence. Simpler example: “She was strong and liked running,” vs. “She was strong, and she liked running.” But if you were to write “She was strong because she liked running,” you wouldn’t use the comma because the conjunction “because” is not in the FANBOYS group.
   (Comma rules do tend to vary by region and discipline — *ahem* Oxford comma — and sometimes by professor, so take this one with a grain of salt. It’s a good rule of thumb to follow when I’m struggling with phrasing, though)

anyway yeah my high school teacher gave us ten grammar commandments but these four are the ones I find myself consciously using until this day. I think the main advantage to these ones is the fact that they force me to be really precise about my phrasing and check that all of my word choices line up the way I want.

Prepositions with Swag was Googled. About is a stellar word.

Meanwhile, swag is to acquire goods by unlawful means.

This is a weirdly accurate rendition of the chaos of English grammar that ought to be experienced.

There’s literally no point; about is just so flavourful.

I’m about to.

It’s about damn time.

Gwen Stefani.

Flutter about.

Just about.

What about?

Go about.

What are we doing? What am I doing?

I guess that’s about it.

An Ode to About: It’s All About About

I do No Red Ink for fun sometimes and you have to choose books or movies that you like to include the characters in the practice sentences, so I’ll get sentences like:

Gleeson Hedge jumped on Saturday

Jason Grace bought five apples

Annabeth Chase likes to read

And stuff like that, and sometimes they are pretty accurate ngl

The family stuff got worse.

I’m going to try and be online more now but I’m having a hard time checking my phone often in the day.

I haven’t been on Tumblr for more than 1 or 2 minutes at a time for the past week or two.

I’m sorry for everyone in my DM’s who probably hate me now, and I’m very very very sorry I haven’t been up to responding to any messages, but I’m gonna try now.

I have been trying to have more time for my mental health, so thank you to everyone for giving me the time I need to take.

Temporarily forgot how to spell cents

I’m a hypocrite because I get so irate when people get word separation wrong (“alot”, “bestfriend”, etc), but I am constantly flummoxed that “each other” is two words. why is it two words?? it SHOULDN’T be! we say it like one word. Things like “somebody” and “whoever” are one word. “Each other” should be one word. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.