engage in literate conversation at family meals.can read a book for hours at a time and enter the lives of the people who live and move and have their being in the story or glean the knowledge so eagerly offered.go right ahead and introduce Jimmy Jones and thank Sally Smith, rather than hedging with “I’d like to introduce Jimmy Jones” and “I want to thank Sally Smith”.
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use the serial comma, as in “red, white, and blue,” and place a comma before a direct address, as in “Hi, Gene,” rather than “Hi Gene”.don’t employ affect as a noun unless they are psychiatrists or psychologists.don’t hypercorrect their pronouns, as in “Between you and I, whom do you think will win the mud wrestling championship?”.don’t dangle their particles in public by miscreating sentences like “We saw many bears driving through Yellowstone Park”.do not speak French-fried English with overly Frenchified pronunciations, such as fwah-YAY, for-TAY, neesh, oh-MAJH, AHN-veh-lope and Bei-ZHING.sound both r’s in library, forward, formerly, and even February.pronounce the words nuclear, Realtor, and jewelry without transposing syllables, as in nucular, Relator and jewlery.never talk about “an historic occasion”.display house signs that read The Smiths or The Smiths’, but never The Smith’s.answer questions in 25 words or fewer, rather than 25 words or less, and recoil at supermarket signs that broadcast “15 items or less”.know the past tense of the word go as went and the perfect tense as gone, thus averting atrocities like “I should have went to the mud wrestling extravaganza”.never toss a like into their conversation unless it’s a verb - “I like you on Facebook” - or a preposition - “There’s no other city like San Diego”.in their speech, keep their ughs and ums to a minimum and avoid hiccoughing you know’s.after someone says, “Thank you,” actually reply, “You’re welcome,” instead of “No problem”.distinguish between the verbs lie and lay, avoiding sentences such as “The book is laying on the table”.say and write “Where is he?” without tacking on a gratuitous, superfluous, droopy at.I am pleased to report that, more successfully than Diogenes, I do find men and women, many of them readers of this column, who: I come to you bearing the lantern of language learning. One sign of that integrity was his practice of carrying a lantern around Athens in the daytime as he looked for an honest man. Diogenes could have asked for gold, for a mansion, or for a cushy position in Alexanders court. Alexander makes Diogenes an incredible offer ask anything of me and Ill give it to you. Diogenes (412?-323 BCE) of Sinope was an ancient Greek philosopher who rejected the hollow values he saw in Athenian society. Minna Heimbürger soon to be published for an authoritative oral opinion. Diogenes, a penniless philosophizing beggar, is lazing around in the sun when hes approached by Alexander the Great, the most powerful man in the known world.
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