Today is National Grammar Day. Go to the Grammar Girl’s National Grammar Day page and enjoy the celebratory song “March Forth.” While you are there, check out the Songwriting Hall of Shame, read John McIntyre’s grammar noir “Wages of Syntax,” and send a National Grammar Day e-card. Fun, fun, fun.
This week’s Style and Substance takes a cold, hard look at “news” releases. Why is it that all too often they fail miserably to inform, though they do not fail to amuse? A case in point is the stunningly convoluted piece of “corpspeak” from Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. that tells us it “will leverage an innovative outcome-based, managed services engagement model with committed productivity benefits over the long term.” Is anyone else reminded of the Postmodernist Generator–an online gibberish generator that can create grammatically correct and utterly nonsensical academic papers and research reports?
