The decline of apostrophe Flashcards
{Punctuation} Pedant
getting upset, annoyed or angry if you see punctuation being used incorrectly.
A pedant is someone who corrects other people’s mistakes particularly natives too!
Are you a punctuation pedant? It depends, usually I’m pretty chilled about it, but sometimes it really winds me up … .
That does kind of make my blood boil. The use & abuse of it.
Linger
To linger is a verb usually used to describe someone or sth staying somewhere before finally leaving.
Sometimes it can be very important, in the CVs & job applications a good standard of spelling & punctuation is expected. Get it wrong & you miss out on a good job opportunity.
They linger above our letters, they wander around the endings of our words, their future is up in the air, they are an endangered species.
Wander
To wander means to walk slowly around without any real purposes or intention/urgency.
They linger above our letters, they wander around the endings of our words, their future is up in the air..
We can’t linger here, you can see loads more … .
Up in the air
When sth is up in the air, it means its future is not certain, it’s not guaranteed.
My holiday plans are up in the air, meaning there is some kind of problem & you might not be going on holiday after all.
They linger above our letters, they wander around the endings of our words, their future is up in the air.
Why has it come to this?
Ignorance
Ignorance is a lack of knowledge or understanding of sth.
Why has it come to this?
I think it’s a mixture of ignorance & laziness, they are too ignorant to know where it goes. The barbarians have won.
Barbarians
Barbarian is a historical word for people who weren’t part of so called civilized society. They were seen as violent & aggressive, primitive & uncivilized.
I think it’s a mixture of ignorance & laziness, they are just too ignorant to know where it goes. The barbarians have won.
