Jim Baumann
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Grammar Moses: My unconscious bias toward 'unconscious' is showingNov 16, 2019 12:00 am - By Jim Baumann jbaumann@dailyherald.com We recently ran a story with this headline: "Workshop will address unconscious bias." That didn't sit right with reader Gail Frei...
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Grammar Moses: A lesson in humilityNov 09, 2019 12:00 am - Sometimes, words are abused so severely that they come to mean the opposite of what originally was intended. Once upon a time, something that was "awesome" was to be fea...
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POLICY CORNER: When we name and how we describe crime suspectsNov 04, 2019 1:00 am - One of the more ticklish policies facing news media deals with the identification of suspects of crime. It's something readers question from time to time. And it's somet...
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Grammar Moses: This is an average, meaning there will be mathNov 02, 2019 1:00 am - By Jim Baumann jbaumann@dailyherald.com As surely as the sun rises and sets and President Trump takes to Twitter, I will find a way to introduce math into this column. I...
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Grammar Moses: I have had it!Oct 26, 2019 1:00 am - Last month I wrote about when you might string together "had" more than once in a sentence. That inspired reader Keith Evans to nine-up me. "Someone gave me a book years...
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Grammar Moses: I beg to differ on common usage of 'begs the question'Oct 19, 2019 1:00 am - Would that I could read and comprehend the entire Webster's Third New International Dictionary that sits on my desk. But I could no longer digest it with my brain than d...
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Grammar Moses: What would Harry sing?Oct 12, 2019 1:00 am - I had planned to discuss this burning issue while the Cubs were still in the throes of the postseason, but I guess it will have to serve as something to chew on over the...
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Grammar Moses: Did you find this column accidentally or on purpose?Oct 05, 2019 1:00 am - Sometimes it feels that you can read my mind. Sometimes more than one of you at a time. I'm beginning to feel like Donald Sutherland in the remake of "Invasion of the Bo...
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Grammar Moses: Is it it is I or is it it is me?Sep 28, 2019 1:00 am - Ordinarily, I wouldn't get into a metaphysical debate here, but this one hits rather close to home. "Maybe you can explain, or maybe find peculiar as I do, why the sente...
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It's always better to be right than firstSep 27, 2019 1:00 am - In this fast-paced world, where everyone with a cellphone and a social media account is a publisher of news, being first matters. We at the Daily Herald know full well t...