L'esprit d'escalier » language http://www.falconesse.com Beware: geekery within Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:47:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Spot the Error http://www.falconesse.com/2007/12/14/spot-the-error/ http://www.falconesse.com/2007/12/14/spot-the-error/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:32:19 +0000 falconesse http://www.falconesse.com/?p=24 Continue reading →]]> I’m not really following this whole baseball/steroids scandal thing, other than catching it on the news as my dad drove us home in the big gorram snowstorm last night, and from boredom-induced clicking today. 

But!  The phrase below kind of jumped out at me.  Whoever can tell me what’s wrong with it first gets a prize selected from the swag at my desk.

Said Roger Clemens’ lawyer, Rusty Hardin: 

Roger Clemens adamantly, vehemently, and whatever other adjectives can be used, denies that he has ever used steroids or … improper substances.

]]> http://www.falconesse.com/2007/12/14/spot-the-error/feed/ 2 Vocabulary Time http://www.falconesse.com/2007/12/03/vocabulary-time/ http://www.falconesse.com/2007/12/03/vocabulary-time/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:28:52 +0000 falconesse http://www.falconesse.com/?p=20 Continue reading →]]> Homophones – they sound the same but have different spellings and different meanings.

  • site – a place
  • sight – that thing your eyes are capable of doing
  • cite – to quote, or to refer to a source as proof
  • smite – what I want to do when people mix those up
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