Comments on: D is for dangerously diving doves

By: Writing Tips from Hobgoblins, Pandas, and Doves | Reading Circle Books

Writing Tips from Hobgoblins, Pandas, and Doves | Reading Circle Books — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 23:54:38 +0000

[...] The fantastically helpful Janice Campbell has reviewed Miss Thistlebottom’s Hobgoblins: The Careful Writer’s Guide to the Taboos, Bugbears, and Outmoded Rules of English Usage; Lynn Truss’ (or is that Truss’s?) aggressive panda is back for the kids in Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference!, and from his first year English teacher’s desk in Seoul, South Korea, Justin Tadlock gets acrostic in D is for dangerously diving doves. [...]

By: Justin Tadlock

Justin Tadlock — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:51:50 +0000

Jenn Besonia — I suppose I'll have to get around to it sometime. I lost interest in this last year. Maybe I should start this thing back up again this year.

By: Jenn Besonia

Jenn Besonia — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:58:14 +0000

Hi Justin, nice posts about blogging.

When are you going to write about the E?

I am looking forward to your next blog post regarding writing.

By: Justin Tadlock

Justin Tadlock — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:18:06 +0000

I’ll continue this series once I get all my WordPress stuff in order. It’s one of the reasons I want to move my WP projects to a new site. I don’t want to just have a WP-centered blog. I hope to pick this up again sometime next month.

By: Arianabird

Arianabird — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:52:11 +0000

I really love this series! It’s much better (and more entertaining) than my English classes ever were. Your Korean students must love you. However, I’ve noticed there aren’t anymore after it. Are more going to be forth coming?

By: Rheanna Sunga

Rheanna Sunga — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:32:04 +0000

Ooh my! I admit being guilty of committing some of the common errors you mentioned. This is informative, and fun too! I’ll be sharing this with my colleagues, they’d be surprise with what’s written here, im sure. And i like this the most: Never use â€œdoveâ€ as the past tense of â€œdive.â€ Always use â€œdivedâ€ because â€œdoveâ€ is a bird.

By: Justin Tadlock

Justin Tadlock — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:58:28 +0000

ket
Thanks. Every time I see those three letters, I think “freak of the week.” I’m a Smallville fan.

I took the liberty of looking up a few sources. Here’s what I found:

There are 68 definitions for FTW at the Urban Dictionary. It seems some of the more common uses are “for the win,” “f*ck the world,” and “what the f*ck (backwards).”

Another resource that says FTW means “for the win” is a slang terms wiki.

I think “for the win” are the correct words to the acronym, but I’m not so sure what today’s youth are using it for. I tend to stay away from people that constantly use Net slang in every sentence. That’s not to say slang is all bad. It’s only useful in situations where it’s appropriate. Now, that’s an oxymoron if I’ve ever heard one — appropriate slang.

By: ket

ket — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:52:42 +0000

Hi, good tutorial.

I’m not sure if I have a stupid question to ask but what does FTW mean? I see it is being used anywhere on the forum and comment section of blog and I am not a native English speaker.

By: Justin Tadlock

Justin Tadlock — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:40:05 +0000

I’m surprised too about no one commenting on this article. It was going to be my first without a comment in a very long time, at least until you came along.

Apostrophes are always tricky. It’s not usually the rules that are tricky but noticing the places that we screw up. They’re just tough to catch.

By: BoltClock

BoltClock — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:37:10 +0000

Once again I’m back after not having visited your blog for a couple weeks

Surprising, though, is that no one has said anything about the letter D yet!

Speaking of using apostrophes in conjunction with decades, this year I plan to revise my use of apostrophes. Seems pretty messed up lately, but at least I got it right for citing decades!

And… I haven’t spotted anything wrong with your article so far.