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Question

awkwardbutaccurate:

Why do people say “woman doctor” or “woman theologian” or “woman writer”? It bothers me. Woman is a noun. Nouns don’t modify. Adjectives do. Therefore “female” would be the appropriate word. Right? Is using woman as an adjective some sort of thing I missed?

English actually does this all the time: using nouns as modifiers. I never realized it until I started studying Spanish. Like an office chair or a soup spoon or a fruit stand or a mouse trap. 

So you’re right in that female is an adjective and woman is a noun, and it’s probably more grammatically correct to say “female doctor,” but I don’t think that “woman doctor” is explicitly incorrect.

badwolfcomplex:

an-editors-eye:

Grammar glamour from Mental Floss.

Can’t not reblog!

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thisischarly:

onallofgallifrey:

jontheclub:

spaceorphan:

Fuck the police. The Oxford Comma will always be relevant in my life.

Im straight up sad now.

I refuse! Thiis is what i was taught when learning sentence structure and grammar and I will use it the rest of my life.  FUCK YOU OXFORD.

DEAR OXFORD,

YOUR COMMAS WILL ALWAYS BE RELEVANT, MEANINGFUL, AND NECESSARY.

SIGNED ME.

NO NO NO NO NO

OXFORD COMMA: NOT OPTIONAL. MANDATORY.

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I’m on an adventure

to boldly split infinitives that have never been split before!!

twopiecesofvine:

Vampire Weekend | Oxford Comma

I always use the Oxford comma. It bugs me so much when people don’t.

En español, no hay una coma “Oxford.” Si se usa, es incorrecto. Pues, hay pocos situaciones cuando usar una coma “Oxford” puede ser confuso.

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Two words, Whose Line producers:

DANGLING PARTICIPLE

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I am sick of working with grown women who say “ain’t” and use double negatives.

Didn’t you have to go to college to get this job? Geez.

And I quote: “They sign this insurance form but they don’t read nothing.”

…

Murder me.