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*[[words mean things]] and have power and that power can be misused such as "literally"
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{{category:Hudson Valley One}}
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Budget for True Pagan Warrior

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Patheos Pagan

Workshops

Panthea

Budget for New Paltz Monthly Meeting

New Paltz monthly meeting

Budget for TPW

substack

medium

  • words mean things and have power and that power can be misused such as "literally"
  • in praise of standard language and the importance of dialect and jargon
  • title case: why it should be eliminated
  • try to
  • motion v move a vote
  • incidents v incidence
  • when the grammatical is the enemy of the good, like using "so" and otherwise starting sentences with conjunctions
  • between: 60 and 80, or 60 to 80?
  • recurring or reoccurring dreams
  • batter or batten down the hatches
  • journalistic integrity and opinions are not mutually exclusive
  • in praise of pronouns
  • avoid unnecessary words, say the sages Strunk and White
  • punctuation doesn't need to be spoken because it's pronounced (quote unquote, parenthetically, dot dot dot, uptalk)

budget for Hudson Valley One

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