Jim Baumann
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Grammar Moses: Please absorb this monograph with zealMar 10, 2018 12:00 am - Dear product salesperson: Please string together words and phrases that make sense - or don't bother emailing me. As you might guess, those who are unfamiliar with my ne...
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Grammar Moses: It's all 'well' and 'good'Mar 03, 2018 12:00 am - "Here's something you might have some fun with in Grammar Moses," wrote Jim Slusher, our deputy managing editor for Opinion, who really should be the regular author of t...
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Grammar Moses: To each and every one of you, please prevent pleonasmsFeb 24, 2018 12:00 am - In the film "Amadeus," Emperor Joseph II offers a critique of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's latest work: "My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. ...
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Grammar Moses: If you annoy me, you will be trespassedFeb 17, 2018 12:00 am - Gerry McGovern offered counsel after reading a recent column in which I threw shade on the creator of the signs in Las Vegas that proclaim "Violators will be trespassed....
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Grammar Moses: Kindly do not rebuff my refresher courseFeb 10, 2018 12:00 am - By Jim Baumann jbaumann@dailyehrald.com In the newspaper business, we wrongly assume that people read everything we write - and remember it all, too. That ridiculous be...
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Grammar Moses: If I were to intentionally split an infinitive, would you hold it against me?Feb 03, 2018 12:00 am - I didn't know what a split infinitive was until my editor pointed it out to me deep into the last century when I was still wearing skinny ties and covering the Streamwoo...
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Grammar Moses: Is the president having contractions?Jan 27, 2018 12:00 am - Decades ago, we had an occasional and unofficial departmental memo titled "Heard around the newsroom" that recounted the most notable quotes of the day uttered by someon...
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Grammar Moses: Don't disrespect 'disrespect,' but steer clear of 'moist'Jan 20, 2018 12:00 am - By Jim Baumann jbaumann@dailyherald.com Words - like music - spiral through your cochleae at the same frequency as the next guy's but often with different emotional resu...
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Grammar Moses: The workaday world of wordsJan 13, 2018 12:00 am - It's to be expected that in your given line of work you use words that - uttered outside the context of the workplace - cause people to look at you as if you were a resi...
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Grammar Moses: When does a word become a word?Jan 06, 2018 12:00 am - "All my life," Ernest Hemingway said, "I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time." I'm sure the king of the simple declarative sentence and th...