Archives for June, 2006

Perfect Practice


When I was in high school, I had a friend who attended a performing arts magnate school as a bass player. One year he was playing in the orchestra for the school’s performance of A Chorus Line. He invited me to watch the play at a special friends and family showing. If you’re familiar with [...]

Pleonasm


pleonasm: the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea. I’ve developed a pet peeve recently. It involves mostly sports commentators, but plenty of other people, including business managers, who are keen on adopting phrases from sports commentators. It is the use of the phrase “question mark” to denote an unknown. Such [...]