Kirk Herbstreit: If Michigan makes move, Jim Harbaugh is the guy
November 24th, 2010 at 5:00 PM ^
if i decide to shower, water is my media
November 24th, 2010 at 10:47 PM ^
Medium.
Media is plural.
/global media studies minor who is waaayy too anal about that word.
November 24th, 2010 at 10:57 PM ^
November 25th, 2010 at 3:18 AM ^
If I say, "The mainstream media is stupid; it does terrible work," how does that make you feel?
November 25th, 2010 at 5:06 PM ^
Eh, that seems right to me. I'm not an English major but wouldn't that be some example of a collective singular noun? Is there such a thing?
November 26th, 2010 at 6:16 AM ^
is plural of "Opus." It came about as being a collection of individual, er, opera in the form of arias, sinfoniae, etc., each styled an "opus" in and of itself, the whole packaged as a singular over-all entity. See also "datum," "agendum," et ceterus paribus.
The Brits do the same thing in reverse when they pluralize the verb with singular nouns (such as "the Army have just won the war," etc.) that are taken in a collective sense. I think Brits are more comfortable, as well, with using plural personal pronouns as gender-neutral substitutions for gender-specific singular pronouns, which is a practice common from Shakespeare to Jane Austin, up to the time that nineteenth-century grammarians aping the formalities of Latin grammar made this practice an infraction. Know your history and set your grammar free.
November 28th, 2010 at 8:42 AM ^
HTML fail.
November 29th, 2010 at 6:00 PM ^
November 26th, 2010 at 8:07 AM ^
November 24th, 2010 at 5:34 PM ^
Is it weird that I count sentences in newspaper paragraphs instead of reading the articles?
November 26th, 2010 at 6:47 AM ^
November 25th, 2010 at 1:30 AM ^
What an unfortunate picture of Andrew Luck.
November 29th, 2010 at 1:43 PM ^
I'm so bummed today, yet you guys always crack me up. Between the T-Rex caption and the "if I decide to breathe, air is the pick" tagline, I'm really enjoying reading considering the circumstances.
Good work all around.
November 26th, 2010 at 5:51 AM ^
December 1st, 2010 at 11:27 PM ^
Of course being an alumnus he's looking out for our interest
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