One Good, One Bad List
First panel. This sentence has two lists of adjectives. What’s wrong with the bad one? I speak of grammar, of course.
You’re right (I hope)! The second list is redundant. Both words mean the same thing. The first list has words with (technically) different meanings, so that list is grammatically okay.
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An Example of Slant Rhyme
Last panel: “gesture” almost fits, so it qualifies as slant rhyme.
Slant Rhyme
Haven’t heard the term “slant rhyme” for years. Do you know what it means? Teme for a lesson in prosody. Here’s what google’s AI says: What is slant rhyme? With many different names – approximate rhyme, half-rhyme, near rhyme, oblique rhyme, and imperfect rhyming – slant rhyme is a rhyming scheme in which the words […]
Correct Singular, Correct Plural
Many use the plural of “criterion” as a singular. Bad. Same problem with “media” and “medium.”
What Part of Speech is “Nothing”?
The humor is because the word is self-referential. …at least she sees the word as self-referential.