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This is my personal blog. It records notes from whatever I am currently studying, words I want to remember to use correctly, records of other things I want to remember, or an opinion I want to think my way through. Sometimes I publish short stories here. As to who I am, let it suffice to know I am a grandchild (with Madeliene L’Engle) of George MacDonald, a child of the Inklings, and the one who always wonders, “What is behind that wardrobe cabinet?” And, I’m one of the proofreaders/editors for Project Gutenberg, so, yes, I might be the one to blame for missing that wrong letter inserted by our optical character recognition. On the other hand, I may have been the editor who caught all the ones you didn’t find. And, I also have a personal journal online. It holds my innermost thoughts, is occasionally highly personal and opinionated, but is never really interesting.
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Motto: Lex orandi, lex credendi
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Recently someone told me about a coworker who was so puffed up that the inevitable collision with a pin took out half the office. I told her that was Rule Number Eight. See my Rules of Life. Rule Number Eight states that the more you believe you are invincible, the more vincible you become.
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The dwarf on the spot sometimes sees things missed by the travelling giant ranging many countries. —- J.R.R. Tolkien
Author Archives: Don Cram
A Which Hunt
The tree, which had no leaves, was a birch. Which is used in nonrestrictive clauses, always set off by commas. The tree was a birch. The fact that it was leafless is incidental. The tree that had no leaves was … Continue reading
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Pleonasm, Tautology, and Solecism
I understand these three words as I am reading; I just refuse to ever use them. The first two refer to stating something with additional, unnecessary words. The last means to violate idiom, as in pleonasms and tautologies. Strunk & … Continue reading
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I Temptations
There are amble temptations to use I, but these are spiritual temptations. Here, I refer to the temptation to incorrectly spell words by replacing an e with an i. It’s liquefy and liquefaction, rarefy and rarefaction, and stupefy and stupefaction, … Continue reading
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