Get it Right!!!

[the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh]

That has long been one of my favorite comments of all time. But then, I'm a linguigeek.

So long as you remember to credit it to James D. Nicoll, who actually said it, rather than to the Star Trek novel where Diane Duane had Kirk say it. (Purely by accident of forgetting where she heard it, all is amiable, but the source error still propagates, so.)

[the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh]

In the spirit of lite-hearted discussion on the failings of literacy lately I present unto ya'll

http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/how-to-sell-books

One wonders how aware the bookstore people are that at least one of the books with a spaceship on the cover contains large quantities of swords within (the WJW) and vce versa (the Wolfe).

[Snowleopard]

I am so glad I am not alone in this complaint...I have a T-shirt that reads; "English doesn't so much borrow from languages as it follows them down an alley, knocks them down and goes through their pockets for loose grammar"

I LIKE that T-Shirt, Renfield.  I don't always use the language the way it should be used but I do appreciate its nuances and those who use it well.
Have you ever read - Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words.  by Josefa Heifetz Byrne.  You'll love it.

ghoom - (anglo-Indian) means to hunt in the dark
dzo - a hybrid between a Yak and a domestic cow

There are many, many more words - some even weirder and wilder.

[Shecky]

So long as you remember to credit it to James D. Nicoll, who actually said it, rather than to the Star Trek novel where Diane Duane had Kirk say it. (Purely by accident of forgetting where she heard it, all is amiable, but the source error still propagates, so.)

I don't read Star Trek novels, so I couldn't have misattributed it. For that matter, I had no idea Nicoll said it, so I couldn't even have attributed it.

[LizW65]

I don't read Star Trek novels, so I couldn't have misattributed it. For that matter, I had no idea Nicoll said it, so I couldn't even have attributed it.

I would have guessed Terry Pratchett, myself.  It bears a certain similarity to his "town where curiousity not only kills the cat, it drops it off the pier with lead weights tied around its feet" quote.

[Snowleopard]

I would have guessed Terry Pratchett, myself.  It bears a certain similarity to his "town where curiousity not only kills the cat, it drops it off the pier with lead weights tied around its feet" quote.

Lemme guess - Ankh-Morpork???

[Enjorous]

...I think I want to shop at that bookstore.

I do too!