I am sorry but market research is very valuable to companies as companies do not know what their customers want unless they ask them. Most people don't mind helping out a company they do business with. A good example of positive changes bec…
I thought I was a "real writer" because you approve my comments on your blog...But really, this was awesome! Made my night! Funny you said that on the day I turned off the "approve comments" function. (I had to run out the door right after
"Neuromas" sounds like a religious festival for people who worship brains. "Neuro" as in neuroscience plus "mas" as in Christmas. Brain festival!Nice to see you blogging again. Don't forget to visit mine once in a while (outerhoard.wordpres…
Hi, this is off topic, but thought you'd get a kick out of this sentence from an old article about Steve Jobs:"The Apple opportunity, when it surfaced, was ideal, since Apple, seeking a new engine, was attracted to the Next operating system…
Thanks. I just can't believe how inconsistently (and badly) elevator buttons are marked. Don't forget that 14 means the 13th floor in many buildings, especially hotels. Thanks! That's going in right now! I'm so glad this resonates with some…
Even more than the two unnecessary passives that follow, it's the introductory phrase that floors me: "With the idea that instead of ..."There was no coming back from that. I overhauled the whole sentence, making it something like: Amazing
Even more than the two unnecessary passives that follow, it's the introductory phrase that floors me: "With the idea that instead of ..."There was no coming back from that. I overhauled the whole sentence, making it something like: Amazing
This link is really cool. I hadn't run across Books Ngram yet - now I can't stop graphing things! Me, too! I have a feeling I'm going to be using the site a lot from now on. But it makes me want more. I want it to show me all the data about…
Why just wring your hands over apostrophe catastrophes when you can SING? Amusingly most of the images in the video were adding an unnecessary apostrophe to a plural, which is such a basic goof the lyrics didn't even address it (I think). F…
While both Jane Doe and John Public grew up in South Florida, their love storybegan in Los Angeles. Fashion eyeglass frames started to get popular. By the late 1920s the Searscatalogue dedicated an entire page to them. Fashion eyeglass fram…
Isn't "into the wee hours" and "evening" a strange contrast? Wee hours feels like after midnight, which doesn't count as evening for me. Good catch. That weirdness happened in my rewrite. (I disguise passages so's I won't get into trouble w…
Hmmm. Not according to Merriam-Webster's, no. It's an adjective (payment due, payment is due), an adverb (due north), a noun (pay your dues) and, debatably, a preposition, as discussed above. But the dictionary never categorizes it as a con…