Losing Friends
This hit a nerve. It’s something I’d like to elaborate on elsewhere sometime, but I can’t right now, so this saves the link.
Tap.. tap… Is this thing on?
This hit a nerve. It’s something I’d like to elaborate on elsewhere sometime, but I can’t right now, so this saves the link.
I always heard “another thing coming” until sometime in, say, the last twenty years. I took “another think coming” to be a variant people employed to be funny. Since I am not much younger than Rand Simberg, it may have once been a regionalism to use think rather than thing, so we learned it differently when young. It’s unfortunate that noting the difference was lent emotional attachment by deploying it as Sarah-bashing, thinking she’s stupid for using the more common version of a phrase.
On the plus side, from the comment thread I learned that “another think coming” was the original, largely replaced by morphing of the language.
Andrew Wakefield simply has zero credibility. End of story. I can’t believe he’d compound his sins, or that anyone would give him a serious platform.
Fascinating, at least to me. Also it makes a lot of sense.
These are good writing tips. Psychology and reasoning is included with them. The passive voice was frowned upon by my teachers. Mileage apparently varies somehwhat in that regard.
Boarding pass barcode, specifically. You might be surprised. It doesn’t affect me, since I never fly, but wow.