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In the Intro segment , with the help of salt, we examined a bit of the complexity present in everyday human conversation. First, we looked at how one form can ...

Linguistics and Dialogue, Intro I’m beginning with this segment because it’s my current favorite. It also requires the least amount of thinking on my part, which is always nice. The ...

It depends on the age of your MC, the friends of your MC, the division of gamer, and the system. Rosey mentioned some popular games. I'd counter that Legend of ...

My first reaction was that it sounded like werewolves, but werewolves need to rest a few decades. My advice would be to comb through fairytales and see what people considered ...

I'm confused by what you mean here by redneck. I come from the States, so I know what redneck here, and the activities you described definitely lend themselves to the ...

Not at all! And if you need proof that it's not an infinitive, just look at this: a virtue went out of him to sugar the sour ones. a virtue ...

Still definitely a participle phrase. Just look at how it's derived. The original two sentences are: But a virtue went out of him. This sugared the sour ones. Slightly modified ...

Yes, there can be such a thing as too many characters. There's too many when the reader can't tell them apart and starts to get confused, when they distract from ...

Who on Earth told you that 'sugaring' in this use is a gerund? Whoever it was obviously doesn't know what they're talking about. A gerund is a verb used as ...

I agree with Kyllorac, not so much with the others. Dynamo makes a good point but you can't make your readers have empathy either. If your reader is a heartless ...

Beware that each country has different copyright laws and different lengths of time before copyrights expire. That link there'll give you an idea of what your country's law is, but ...

Well, I am... not particularly romantic. So I chose October, because it was the title that didn't suggest a chick lit. And thus my selection was biased. But, the other ...

Oh, I have another one! This one would really hit the "You've got to be kidding, you're banning that?" buttons. Brothers Grimm, yo. The Grimm (cough, real, cough) version of ...

How about something from centuries ago? Machiavelli? Something from Cervantes? I'm particularly fond of "marriage is a noose." Or, what about some Alexandre Dumas? My favorite of them all, though, ...

Arguably, the verb is the most important part of speech. In some languages, a single word can be an entire complex sentence including subject, object, indirect object, instrument, and more—and ...