I am judging the person who wrote this article. It seems to me that she lacks common sense. What poor logic she has used in her deductive analogy. Forgetting one's child in the car, or leaving them there for hours in deadly conditions intentionally is not the same thing as purposely leaving them strapped in a car seat…

There is a world of difference between people who forget their child while heading into work—and that is something that I understand and fear—and those who run into a store for five minutes. The Weingarten piece is about people whose routines are changed in just a tiny way, while the Brooks piece is about someone who…

Thank you. I don't want to live in a world where people are calling the cops on each other just in case. Use your common sense!

It makes no sense to compare what Brooks did with the people profiled in Weingarten's excellent piece. They are completely different scenarios, and it undercuts your argument to put them in the same league. Regardless, I have no problem whatsoever with what Brooks did. You don't need to "tell everyone it's totally OK…

If I were interviewing someone for a job and they started throwing things away off my desk, I'd be a little pissed. Who goes into a job interview and starts cleaning up after the person interviewing them?

I was just reading about this one yesterday. Here's another take, this from my favorite language authority, Garner's Modern American Usage:

Argh, reading that list just bugged me. What kind of person actually says that scientific research implies correlation but not causation? How dumb do you have to be to think that experts "work for money and not truth"? Has this person even heard of science or the concept of expertise? And then I noticed it's the…

No. "Loo" is American usage, and "left" is British. Otherwise the entire American military is incorrect. I blame this difference on British people choosing to deliberately mangle French words.

I'm only concerned with contemporary usage. The pronunciation "axe" has an extremely negative association and has had for decades. It is to be avoided. It's a disservice for you to suggest that uneducated, poor people who already face numerous obstacles not use standard English.

I refuse to call .gif 'jiff,' I don't rightly care what the creator says. It's a G, and it stands for the hard G in 'Graphics'. If he wanted it to be jiff, he should've spelled it jif. Language is plastic, it grows and evolves and changes, and the most widely accepted use is now hard-G 'gif.' I want people to…

I have debated this more times than I'm proud to admit and was ready to copy/paste excerpts from debates I've had online and scanned pages from library books that I checked out solely to make my point. Fortunately, I stumbled across a yahoo answers post that covers most of these points in a very succinct manner.

I must say I've never heard anyone mispronounce any of those three words in the way you have indicated. And it's more like "Vair-sigh", really. And "Kyew", not "K-yew".

There is absolutely no situation in which pronouncing 'asked' as 'axed' is correct usage, but as a local dialect it may be perfectly acceptable. We're discussing correctness here, not whether being right all the time is worthwhile.

Mischievous: Causing or showing a fondness for causing trouble in a playful way.

I agree with the "G"if pronunciation. GIF stands for "Graphic Interchange Format". That's "Graphic" with a hard G, not "Jraphic". Wilhite may have invented gifs, but he didn't invent graphics.

Have you considered reporting this to the police? Because although I think they're mostly empty threats, they are still threats.

I'm not sure where you see any judgement on my part - I'm just sharing my opinion based on my experience, as well as on what I've read, that our tastes change based on what we're used to eating. When I eat more sugar, I crave it more. And when I eat less, I don't. Others seem to share the same experience, and from…

It does become weirdly personal, which is annoying. I would rightly be regarded as the biggest asshole ever if I went around forcing flax seed banana smoothies on all my coworkers. It's no less rude when it comes to donuts or birthday cake.

I'll stop pretending my diet is fun when the people I work with stop saying "Don't you want a donut? You can have just one. One won't hurt. Come onnnnnnn...." Ugh, fuck you, Dude. I don't want your goddamn donuts.