I swear, I don’t go looking for these things. But having saved How to disagree not ten minutes ago, I cannot help but notice that xkcd has been similarly inspired. Or perhaps not.
So the apostrophe — that key orthographic distinguisher that protects Western civilization from confusion between the genitive case of the 3rd person singular neuter pronoun and the result of attaching the clitic form of the 3rd person singular present tense form of the copula to that pronoun — is...
This post is number 35 in a series.
Moonflowers. Hyacinth beans. A Mandevilla I got from the big garden on Saturday. A sweet-scented white-flowered shrub that makes glaucous, dark-blue berries, nabbed from friend Cini's terrace. My own cannas, years old. An Ipomoea, ditto. And a tomato from some...
Hands up all those who noticed that instead of a misty bloke in a boat, collecting pond scum on the lake at the Summer Palace in Beijing, the header image for this site now sports a springtime view over the domed roofline of Rome?
It is, I think, a little more appropriate. It is also not too racy...
I swear, I don’t go looking for these things. But having saved How to disagree not ten minutes ago, I cannot help but notice that xkcd has been similarly inspired. Or perhaps not.
Yesterday's 50 x 100 x 50 post sent me spiralling down the rabbit's hole of the intertubes, where far and away the most mesmerising thing was this:
