Jim Baumann
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Grammar Moses: Is Wordle invading your dreams, too?Apr 23, 2022 1:00 am - Like many of the people who populate my Facebook feed, I have fallen fully under Wordle's spell. I assume that if you're reading my prattle you already play Wordle or at...
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Grammar Moses: Do you wait on - or for - a friend?Apr 16, 2022 1:00 am - Now that it's officially spring, it's time for some spring cleaning of my bloated email box. I'm going to sift through some that aren't infested with black mold and, by ...
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Grammar Moses: On punctuation and perspectiveApr 09, 2022 1:00 am - Many of you are kind enough to share with me multiple forwarded collections of embarrassing headlines from other newspapers, unfortunate misspellings or captions, punctu...
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Grammar Moses: Take down pants, and spank yourself for getting this wrongApr 02, 2022 1:00 am - In newspapers, we generally adhere to the order of time/date/place. At least in my early days we did. Part of the reason for that was to be consistent, especially in lon...
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Grammar Moses: I've lost the great space debateMar 27, 2022 5:30 am - For those of you who think journalists give little thought to the words we choose, I say we certainly do - and we even have long conversations debating the spaces betwee...
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Grammar Moses: What's your true range? And what's so scary about portmanteaus?Mar 19, 2022 1:00 am - Did you know that 11% of people in America are terrified of animals, including cats? So claims the news release I just read promoting a book on phobias. I haven't indepe...
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Grammar Moses: What 'headline-speak' is and why we use itMar 12, 2022 12:00 am - I've been drowning in emails about headlines lately so, today, I'll try to shed some light on them. The emails haven't been about political slants, sensationalism or mis...
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Grammar Moses: The distinction between 'crash' and 'accident' is an important oneMar 05, 2022 12:00 am - It's not often that this column changes the course of politics in Illinois, but I'm going to enjoy the faint possibility that in this small way it has. State Rep. Tom We...
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Grammar Moses: On geopolitics and Catholic convertersFeb 26, 2022 12:00 am - "This is the police. We have you surrounded!" You've likely heard this line in a variety of movies right before the antihero does something foolhardy and gets himself sh...
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Grammar Moses: Let's talk about bad math and F-wordsFeb 12, 2022 12:00 am - One of the functions I've adopted at the Daily Herald over the last decade is chief email triage specialist. It's not a glamorous job. There is no stipend for it. But I'...