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  1. “It’s partly true, too, but it isn’t all true. People always think something’s all true.” -Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye
  2. Ask A “Is ‘da’ ‘yes’?” Ask A “Is ‘ja’ random?” Ask B “Does A speak truly?”
  3. Oh, bother. I’ll get back to this.
  4. I know that quote, but always assumed it was Dorothy Parker.
  5. Tried again to appreciate women’s bodies on Baywatch. Didn’t take.
  6. I was watching Heathers the other night, and I was chagrined to see that though the word “myriad” was misused in a suicide note, a teacher remarked that she was impressed to see that the student who was believed to have written it used it correctly. The number associated with said word is 10,000. You’d never say “a 10,000 of problems.” I looked up the word, merely intending to glance at the definition I already knew just to validate my smug self-righteousness. As it transpired, I was left flabbergasted (the following is from Merriam-Webster): Recent criticism of the use of myriad as a noun, both in the plural form myriads and in the phrase a myriad of, seems to reflect a mistaken belief that the word was originally and is still properly only an adjective. As the entries here show, however, the noun is in fact the older form, dating to the 16th century. The noun myriad has appeared in the works of such writers as Milton (plural myriads) and Thoreau (a myriad of), and it continues to occur frequently in reputable English. There is no reason to avoid it. I am shaken and humbled.
  7. Never heard that one, but it’s very similar to a quote usually attributed to Plato: “Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.”
  8. “humbled” I see and hear it far too often, and each time it is used erroneously.
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