by Mark O'Brien | Jul 18, 2016
The other day, I came across an informercial for Prezi, not-so-cleverly disguised as yet another in the interminable myriad of how-to treatises to which we find ourselves ceaselessly subject in this, The Golden Age of Self-Evident, Sophomoric, and Unrequested Advice....
by Mark O'Brien | Jul 17, 2015
The other day, as I was giving my cat, Sammy, his usual evening repast, which consists of a half-can of wet food (he snacks on dry food all day), he said, “Just give me the whole shebang.” The next day, as I was repeating the process, he said, “Just...
by Mark O'Brien | Jun 23, 2015
Being in the communications racket may make me a little more sensitive to intelligibility than most. And I may have a slight hyper-percipience when it comes to perceptions of linguistic decorum. But there are some occasions on which you just can’t help but...
by Mark O'Brien | Apr 24, 2015
idiom: noun — an expression, the meaning of which is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements My recent post about malaprops had me thinking about idiomatic expressions. One, in particular, has stuck with me because of its pertinence to the...
