https://billingsgazette.com/search/?f=rss&t=article&c=lifestyles/blogs/watchyerlanguage&l=25&s=start_time&sd=desc billingsgazette.com - RSS Results in section(s) lifestyles/blogs/watchyerlanguage only for asset type(s) of article TNCMS 1.93.2 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 30 Our good friend John McIntyre cited this a while ago, and it's only because of my own sloth that I'm so late in picking it up. Nonetheless, time's passage has not diminished its brilliance. What is it, you ask? A… Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:20:00 -0600 http://billingsgazette.com/tncms/asset/editorial/2fa4ccfe-664c-11de-9a27-001cc4c03286 https://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/blogs/watchyerlanguage/article_2fa4ccfe-664c-11de-9a27-001cc4c03286.html Craig Lancaster There's a reason we -- and I'm using the royal we here -- don't like to play gotcha games, even if our business is finding and correcting mistakes. Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:35:00 -0600 http://billingsgazette.com/tncms/asset/editorial/e4a6489f-937d-5160-8b8b-c602c15d2205 https://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/blogs/watchyerlanguage/article_e4a6489f-937d-5160-8b8b-c602c15d2205.html Craig Another newspaper is dead, this one the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and while I find that enormously depressing, I had to smile when I saw this: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:40:00 -0600 http://billingsgazette.com/tncms/asset/editorial/e6338b84-94fb-5bb8-a88e-35d1c26b3f86 https://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/blogs/watchyerlanguage/article_e6338b84-94fb-5bb8-a88e-35d1c26b3f86.html Craig Here's another departure from the strict world of words: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:45:00 -0600 http://billingsgazette.com/tncms/asset/editorial/d0f74aff-4ce1-578e-a7b7-fb25488fe442 https://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/blogs/watchyerlanguage/article_d0f74aff-4ce1-578e-a7b7-fb25488fe442.html Craig Legendary sportswriter (truly) Frank DeFord, writing on behalf of his friend "The Duchess," urges us to cease and desist with "on the bubble" to describe NCAA basketball teams dangling perilously between reaching the tournament and being left out. Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:30:00 -0600 http://billingsgazette.com/tncms/asset/editorial/1097f1bb-6f6d-53c0-9405-574053d8c2c2 https://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/blogs/watchyerlanguage/article_1097f1bb-6f6d-53c0-9405-574053d8c2c2.html Craig This isn't, technically, a language or usage issue, but it does touch on cliche. On a Wednesday night, that qualifies. Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:20:00 -0600 http://billingsgazette.com/tncms/asset/editorial/6d978410-4c48-524c-acd2-79633ef6ee17 https://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/blogs/watchyerlanguage/article_6d978410-4c48-524c-acd2-79633ef6ee17.html Craig Carol Fisher Saller, a senior manuscript editor at the University of Chicago Press, has written a book called "The Subversive Copy Editor." It drops March 16. Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:20:00 -0700 http://billingsgazette.com/tncms/asset/editorial/b74d4680-1238-5646-a8e4-9162e753036a https://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/blogs/watchyerlanguage/article_b74d4680-1238-5646-a8e4-9162e753036a.html Craig Is it safe for me to peek out my head? Truly? Are you sure? Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:25:00 -0700 http://billingsgazette.com/tncms/asset/editorial/23b921e7-c795-505f-beaf-1d43fa533061 https://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/blogs/watchyerlanguage/article_23b921e7-c795-505f-beaf-1d43fa533061.html Craig From the Kitsap Sun in Bremerton, Wash., comes this story about a freshman legislator's bid to have the term "mental retardation" struck from the state statutes. Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:05:00 -0700 http://billingsgazette.com/tncms/asset/editorial/5b04325e-8b32-55a4-a50b-5d14066557f9 https://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/blogs/watchyerlanguage/article_5b04325e-8b32-55a4-a50b-5d14066557f9.html Craig This video has been making the rounds on some of the grammar-related blogs. Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:25:00 -0700 http://billingsgazette.com/tncms/asset/editorial/0608b464-7f0f-5bd7-9f60-9b16ec956b23 https://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/blogs/watchyerlanguage/article_0608b464-7f0f-5bd7-9f60-9b16ec956b23.html Craig New York Times deputy news editor Philip B. Corbett, in the After Deadline blog, has a delicious take on style points for which his newspaper is incorrectly scolded. Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:35:00 -0700 http://billingsgazette.com/tncms/asset/editorial/032d497b-b904-56be-8661-f8cd3c8a192b https://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/blogs/watchyerlanguage/article_032d497b-b904-56be-8661-f8cd3c8a192b.html Craig The bad economic news keeps crashing in, but with one story, at least, there's a silver lining: The scandal involving financier Allen Stanford allows us to drop a little Texan on you. Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:35:00 -0700 http://billingsgazette.com/tncms/asset/editorial/87dfd455-5814-57fc-8340-a296dd7515af https://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/blogs/watchyerlanguage/article_87dfd455-5814-57fc-8340-a296dd7515af.html Craig Remember our post back in the fall that pointed out Slate's diagramming of a wayward Sarah Palin sentence? (Allow us this bit of snark: Is there any other kind?) Well, fair is fair, and now The Millions blog has taken… Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:50:00 -0700 http://billingsgazette.com/tncms/asset/editorial/425bd031-d9d6-5850-9a10-01ddc5af5aaf https://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/blogs/watchyerlanguage/article_425bd031-d9d6-5850-9a10-01ddc5af5aaf.html Craig With around 700 wrestlers in town for the state tournament, I figure it's a good time to throw Watch Yer Language over to Gazette sports editor Mike Zimmer. Mike dispatched a note to staffers this week in anticipation of the… Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:00:00 -0700 http://billingsgazette.com/tncms/asset/editorial/90992812-7d08-555f-9c32-d86eb897cf21 https://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/blogs/watchyerlanguage/article_90992812-7d08-555f-9c32-d86eb897cf21.html Craig We professional journalists keep getting told that our future is somehow, some way, tied to Twitter. That may be true. I really can't tell.* Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:00:00 -0700 http://billingsgazette.com/tncms/asset/editorial/789eb8d6-1e3f-560b-a6fa-2b9e426d95bb https://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/blogs/watchyerlanguage/article_789eb8d6-1e3f-560b-a6fa-2b9e426d95bb.html Craig I haven't checked in with old chum Doug Fisher in a while. I'm glad I did tonight. Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:35:00 -0700 http://billingsgazette.com/tncms/asset/editorial/7bf37f3d-7ba0-54b2-aad5-2c9c3f16a5c7 https://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/blogs/watchyerlanguage/article_7bf37f3d-7ba0-54b2-aad5-2c9c3f16a5c7.html Craig I should have posted this yesterday, as it was the 50th anniversary of the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens. Apologies for the tardiness. Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:35:00 -0700 http://billingsgazette.com/tncms/asset/editorial/83f7d234-4e8b-528c-b934-bacb6fad1186 https://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/blogs/watchyerlanguage/article_83f7d234-4e8b-528c-b934-bacb6fad1186.html Craig Alan McDermott, who has been editing James J. Kilpatrick's "The Writer's Art" column since 1979, passes on the sad news that, at age 88, Kilpatrick is retiring the feature. Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:40:00 -0700 http://billingsgazette.com/tncms/asset/editorial/d5c95355-b581-57ce-9d1c-5161e5ae7a22 https://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/blogs/watchyerlanguage/article_d5c95355-b581-57ce-9d1c-5161e5ae7a22.html Craig If you saw Page 7A of your dead-tree edition of The Gazette this morning, you no doubt noticed that the esteemed leaders of Birmingham, England, have decided to do away with apostrophes on signs. Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:10:00 -0700 http://billingsgazette.com/tncms/asset/editorial/12d47fca-c62e-56b4-b60b-2137c7e6b070 https://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/blogs/watchyerlanguage/article_12d47fca-c62e-56b4-b60b-2137c7e6b070.html Craig The Internets have been talking. I've been listening: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:30:00 -0700 http://billingsgazette.com/tncms/asset/editorial/2a26de9b-1f80-584e-9adb-98da2b0b43d5 https://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/blogs/watchyerlanguage/article_2a26de9b-1f80-584e-9adb-98da2b0b43d5.html Craig Using a popular Facebook meme -- 25 random things about one's self -- as a springboard, John McIntyre of the Baltimore Sun offers 25 random facts about editing. To anyone who has toiled at this racket, the items -- even… Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:35:00 -0700 http://billingsgazette.com/tncms/asset/editorial/d53c63f0-3f53-5eec-823c-135b013ab994 https://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/blogs/watchyerlanguage/article_d53c63f0-3f53-5eec-823c-135b013ab994.html Craig In yet another sign that the language ultimately cannot be restrained, Addictionary gives folks an outlet to find and submit words that are as yet unrecognized by the authority dictionaries and yet have some currency for someone, somewhere. Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:55:00 -0700 http://billingsgazette.com/tncms/asset/editorial/82b4d568-1799-504e-add1-1cb672c8933f https://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/blogs/watchyerlanguage/article_82b4d568-1799-504e-add1-1cb672c8933f.html Craig Steven Pinker, author of "The Language Instinct," has a theory about Tuesday's botched oath of office: Chief Justice John Roberts' penchant for hypercorrection backfired. Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:40:00 -0700 http://billingsgazette.com/tncms/asset/editorial/3c845038-9e70-5a37-a46a-8afc14b390ec https://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/blogs/watchyerlanguage/article_3c845038-9e70-5a37-a46a-8afc14b390ec.html Craig Jennifer 8. Lee* of the New York Times examines a scrap of type from an 1862 edition of the newspaper that seems to sport a winking emoticon -- rendered as ;). Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:00:00 -0700 http://billingsgazette.com/tncms/asset/editorial/0f5e1be7-5eaa-513d-922e-5a92eba22a22 https://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/blogs/watchyerlanguage/article_0f5e1be7-5eaa-513d-922e-5a92eba22a22.html Craig If you opened your new Billings Gazette this morning, you saw part of the reason for my prolonged absence. I was on the newsroom team that redesigned the newspaper for our new, slimmer page size. The final few weeks of… Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:40:00 -0700 http://billingsgazette.com/tncms/asset/editorial/699aba99-361c-59c7-8a25-c6c1d835ca57 https://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/blogs/watchyerlanguage/article_699aba99-361c-59c7-8a25-c6c1d835ca57.html Craig