Jim Baumann
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Grammar Moses: Wrong place, wrong time to use 'allegedly'Jul 02, 2022 1:00 am - Unless you are someone who feels the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut a decade ago was an elaborate hoax, you'll probably accept what I'm about to...
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Grammar Moses: All the world's a sports analogy, and all the men and women merely playersJun 25, 2022 1:00 am - What I know about sports you could stick in my eye and I'd still be able to see. But I can still turn just about anything into an entertaining sports analogy with the be...
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Grammar Moses: Can a con artist run the gambit?Jun 18, 2022 1:00 am - Assistant Weekend Editor Susan Klovstad said she thought of me when she saw this in a recent news release: "In the summer of 1978, two recent college graduates and thei...
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Grammar Moses: On numbers and 'over' overkillJun 11, 2022 1:00 am - On Facebook, where good grammar goes to die, I found the following solicitation to rock memorabilia collectors: "With over 817+ backstage passes from epic concert tours ...
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From the Editor: Not making mass shooters household namesJun 04, 2022 1:00 am - Buffalo. Uvalde. Tulsa. Three mass killings in less than three weeks. Much has been written about each shooting: an 18-year-old white supremacist kills 10 and wounds thr...
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Grammar Moses: Is this NOT a double negative?Jun 04, 2022 1:00 am - Reader David Bruun wanted to talk about double negatives. I'm not uninterested in the topic, so here goes: "I was listening to the radio several days ago, and a Realtor ...
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Grammar Moses: Forgive my dangling modifierMay 28, 2022 1:00 am - My friend Peter Page builds high-rises. He knows that if he were to put a beam in the wrong place, the whole thing could come down. In a much less dramatic, costly and d...
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Grammar Moses: Head over heels and other head-scratchersMay 14, 2022 1:00 am - Things often don't sound right to me. But then I have this column, so perhaps I'm predisposed to being picky. Bill McLean wrote to tell me of a few head-scratchers: • Wh...
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Grammar Moses: On cribbage scoring and standing people upMay 07, 2022 1:00 am - If I know my readers, most of you are familiar with pickleball, waltzing, dinner by 5 and ... cribbage. For those of a generation or two younger, today's main topic migh...
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Grammar Moses: On homophones and the duality of womanApr 30, 2022 1:00 am - Take a look at this spirited description of the film "Dual" from The Washington Post: "Set in the near future, this sci-fi drama is a horrific cautionary tale about the ...