Verbal Fluidity

Hello All. So By now I’m sure you’ve all seen or heard our lovely new spokeswomen for the Halifax bridges. Aptly named Bridget, she is a trash talking, no nonsense gal, who tells it like it is. Who better to have for a spokesperson right? Well some think not. A particular local feminist organization doesn’t think Bridget is good at all, and is asking the Bridge Commission to take her down AND apologize. They claim the ads are objectifying women. Well I have a few things to say about that. (Not really a surprise, I know) So let’s look at the objectification. There are two things here we can all know to be true. Sex sells, and women have been peddling one thing or another on billboards since, well their invention. Do these groups have an issue with the billboards that sell perfume, or the pictures of women wearing only jeans to promote that product? It has been tossed around that women who have been sexually abused, or joked about sexually would not like the depictions of Bridg...

Hi All. I’m going to step away from my normal controversy of current events and give a small English refresher. The few listed below are obviously not the entire list, but a few that especially annoy me. 10 Items or Less:   It won’t make you LESS of a person to know that FEWER than 30% of people get this right. Technically, since the number of items can be measured, the appropriate word to use is fewer. Less would be used in a circumstance where the subject is not tangibly measurable. Irregardless  : The simple utterance of this word makes my blood boil. Not only does the prefix and suffix cancel each other out, it sounds ridiculous. Basically the word irregardless means the same as regard, but people who don’t seem to have a basic understanding of English language, use it as a substitute for regardless. I wonder if they know how foolish they sound, REGARDLESS of how smart they THINK they sound? I could care less :  How many people have you heard ...