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March 17, 2012

The End of the (Under)Line (Does Strunk & White Know About This?)

Long Live the (Hypertext) Link! If you write, I dunno . . a couple thousand words a month (a week?) on your blog, you’re naturally attuned to subtle shifts in the style and usage of the English language. Like . . . no one underlines anymore, because it’s confused for a hypertext link.  See what I mean? What does...
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WSJ’s Holman Jenkins: ‘Goldman Sachs is “Intelligently Self-Interested”‘

Ahhh, So THAT’s What They Are If you’re joining the story “already in progress,” as it were, here’s what you missed: Goldman Sachs exec Greg Smith — heretofore officially referred to by Goldman defenders as “‘junior’ Goldman Sachs executive Greg Smith,” “peon” Greg Smith, or the like — resigned in a blaze of glory on the Op-Ed...
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