In addition to one of the most brilliant examples of boomer self-castigation, Dowd's body of work includes many columns about the prosecution of radical environmentalists.


The combination of facts and speculation is grounds for protests.


Media conglomeration involves multiple steps.


Media kings welcome fish into their bellies.


The White House is confused on how to act.


Russia is facing diminishing challenges due to the Chechen war.


The Chechen war has given Russia more obstacles.


FDA regulations have made it almost impossible for adults to buy cigarettes.


FDA regulations were put in place to make it harder to buy cigarettes.


It isn't hard for adults to buy cigarettes even with FDA regulations.


The theories identify ages with features of the faces.


The theories identify ages with features.


Debrah Eappen did not like giving an interview to Time.


Debrah Eappen gave an interview to Time.


The national parks are so crowded the deer are extinct.


Cars are not just left in random places, when people return to base.


Motor homes shelter cars from the sun and from snow.


Once one leaves the base, they are never allowed to return again.


You can imagine a bulldozer operator starting a bulldozer.


You cannot imagine a bulldozer operator.


I am certain that the doctor received the letter I sent him.


I did not eat the cake the doctor sent me that Christmas.


The doctor sent me a bottle of wine that Christmas.


The team changed their name because it wasn't popular.


The team had a name before this one that could also be thought of as an Indian nickname.


It is assumed with good reason that Yiddish...


It is rudely never considered that Yiddish...


There are many different assumptions about Yiddish.


It is common for writers to not pick out errors in their own texts.


The job of the editor is to point out errors that the writer misses.


Writers are very meticulous; not a single error passes unnoticed under their eyes.


I found the definition in the thesaurus.


I looked in the thesaurus and didn't find a definition.


The thesaurus that I used was the standard thesaurus.


According to the preface, it contains terms that gave rise in the twentieth century but leaves out slang that arose earlier.


It has all of the slang contained in it from the beginning of time.


There is a lot of different slang from before the twentieth century.


The 1984 edition is the best of the lot.


The supplement is cheaper than the book.


Both types of words change over time, but at different rates.


There is a third type of word that does not change, but is rarely used.


Bernstein only explained it in the conclusion.


The introduction contains an explanation.


Nebraska doesn't have any cities with funny names.


Illiteracy is a major issue in the third world.


Industrialized nations experience no problems with illiteracy.


Even native speakers sometimes have trouble with humor.


Humor is generally one of the easiest things for outlanders to understand.


These subjects are difficult for outsiders to understand.


Editors are normally employed to catch this sort of error.


Elongation is a great way to ensure that the meaning of a statement is clarified.


The meaning may change when attempting to make a statement longer.


M. Tesniares did not consider Anglo Saxon input.


M. Tesniares performs Anglo-Saxon input.


Applying heat to a person's head is a good way to improve their focus and concentration.


Excessive heat can cause dizziness in some cases.


Today it was five degrees above the seasonal average.


Many other professions think highly of themselves.


Many professions have traditions of self-deprecation.


No other job has a robust tradition of criticism about itself.


Those papers don't have a good reputation.


Those papers have a lot of gossip from the housewives.


Lite and light are only used to describe wines and whiskey.


Lite beer does not have a high percentage of alcohol.


Vanilla was popular among the Spanish traders.


People struggle to find an alternate noun.


People are much more likely to remember poor writing.


Well written text is often much easier to remember than poorly written text.


Well written text is too expensive to produce in large quantities.


People struggle with the lingo on the ranch.


The British took over the world economy.


The British traded a lot around the world.


Animal metaphors are gone because of cities.


It can be very difficult to detect at times.


It makes very little noise thanks to a carefully insulated engine.


It was always very easy to detect from any distance.


Other currencies also use names of weights for their unit of measure.


Ouguiya is translated a 'kilogram' and is used only as a unit of weight measurement.


The is an connection between the names of money and the names of weights.


Allusions to places and people can be used to convey ideas privately.


It is important to me that my autobiography is accessible as possible.


Most of these names would be recognizable to three or four close friends.


Every year over one hundred new word variations are added to the English language.


New word are chosen by a language committee and their use is mandatory.


Variations of words have to be useful in order to survive.


Conversations with you are fairly simple and witless.


You have so many witty remarks and quips.


You prefer to speak in witticisms and quips.


Mr. Room refused to consider the idea that the Bummel might not be a river.


The Bummel is actually an Eastern European brand of automobile.


The Bummel is actually not a river at all.


Of late there has been an increase in the noise levels in the school patios.


There are fewer students in the school patios, and therefore less noise.


There is much less noise in the school patios lately.


Britain has many distinctive English dialects, numbering more than those in North America.


North American and British dialects are exactly the same, and people can't distinguish any difference between them.


People from North America have a hard time understanding half of the spoken British dialects.


According to the informant, dog weather was used to describe seasonal monsoon rains.


June and July are also very hot in Tennessee.


The weather is hot and rainless most days in August.


In other words, it means that I abide by the law at all times.


It is a way of saying that I am a lawless person.


It is a way of saying that I am not a saint.


A person's true self is revealed by concrete facts.


Clothing selection is an important part of a person's style.


The Greek word from which diagnosis was borrowed meant a plant's root.


The origins of the word diagnosis can be traced back to the Greek language.


There is evidence to suggest that diagnosis was borrowed from Latin.


I am sure the Yiddish will still be alive in the year 2000.


I'm sure the Yiddish culture will unfortunately be lost by the year 2000.


The Yiddish culture has survived for more than a thousand years.


Proper nouns are often overused when translating to English from foreign languages.


The Japanese are known for their efficient use of English.


The Japanese are known for using too many words when writing in English.


Repetition is one element of impressive speech techniques.


Speakers who use this method have been shown to be thirty percent more effective.


Speakers who want to impress their audience should speak accurately and not repeat themselves.


The list was quite comprehensive and included all known disabilities.


These disabilities affect several million people in the US alone.


Various mental disabilities were left off the list for an unknown reason.


Boswell spent a few years in the company of Johnson.


Boswell wrote the Life of Johnson about 200 years ago.


The Cambridge University Press will honor the 200th anniversary of Life of Johnson with an 8mm film.


Due to worries about political correctness, all potentially objectionable names were altered.


Even though some find the names objectionable, they have not been altered.


Respect for tradition demands that the original names be used without changes.


Many languages do not display much ambition at all.


The Scottish language is known to be highly ambtious.


The regional dialect is probably related to this lack of linguistic ambition.


I have never heard of the International Phonetic Alphabet and don't know why it would be included in a dictionary.


If I were to expand on the reasons why I think English dictionaries should contain the International Phonetic Alphabet, this review probably double in length.


This review is limited in scope and therefore doesn't discuss why the International Phonetic Alphabet isn't used in English dictionaries.


After the conversion is finished the target should have exactly four c's.


Each c in the target should be changed into a d.


There should be more c's in the target than d's.


Grammar and glamour have never been related to each other.


In the past the words grammar and glamour were identical.


The words separated in the 1910s when the Kaiser stole all of the L's.


Ethnic terms have a different impact when used as or modified by adjectives versus nouns.


Nouns that are ethnic terms linguistically solidify our understanding of ethnicity in a false way.


Verbs are the only means of expressing ethnic terms.


Pilots are always perfect communicators.


Pilots are too caught up in flying to communicate well.


Pilots don't always communicate with crew members well.


The book's confusing lexical choices made the content confusing.


The impeccable lexical elements of this book made it a joy to read.


This book has suspicious lexical entries.


French novels are all about food and romance.


French novels present vivid descriptions of military experience.


Under French novels, one can find the military experience genre.


Before 1800 Missouri was not considered a US state.


The USA added ten states to its nation between 1800 and 1850.


Up to this day, Missouri is not considered a US state.


Continence is considered a vice by those who do not have it imposed on them.


Only those who do not have continence consider it to be a virtue.


Those who do not have continence imposed on them consider it a good quality.


The book just explains what the house looked like.


The book talks about how the words are used in medicine.


The book talks about the meanings of the word.


And we know that Professor Honey is correct in his writings.


We know that Professor Honey is incorrect according to his writing.


We suppose that Professor Honey is correct in all his writings.


The pianist, Lil Armstrong, was able to improvise songs.


This improvised answer went on to become one of the most famous pieces of his career.


Without a written score the pianist was unable to continue the song.


Learning to play guitar and starting a band was all that my nephew talked about.


My nephew requested an acoustic guitar for his upcoming birthday present.


What my nephew really wanted for his birthday was a banjo.


Food is more like rocks and trees than blood or flood.


It is generally accepted that one of the most important steps to solving a problem is first to name it.


It is generally agreed that there is no point in naming a problem, because it wastes time while new problems arise and change before solutions can be found.


Once a problem is named the solution will follow in an acceptable time frame.


Ethnic groups are all ashamed of themselves.


Some ethnic groups are really proud because they win all the wars.


Some ethnic groups have a lot of self-esteem.


Dictionaries do not talk about these senses very much.


Dictionaries usually expound on these subjects at great length.


There are other experts in the field that agree with my assessment.


They gave a name to the lady's loud laugh.


They named the lady's laugh so they could talk about it without her knowing.


Even tho she told him to fly home it is unsure if he did or not.


In the later chapter we learn that he did in fact fly home.


She told him to stay away from home because it was not safe.


Most people only rarely find themselves in this sort of situation.


This phrase is used in the roughest and most casual of situations.


This phrase is used in unusually fancy surroundings.


Obtaining ownership of the Lite beer label was the main reason that Phillip Morris, Inc.'s Miller Brewing Co. bought out Meister Brau Inc.


Phillip Morris, Inc.'s Miller Brewing Co. bought out Meister Brau Inc. in 1972, and therefore owned the Lite beer label.


Phillip Morris, Inc.'s Miller Brewing Co. decided it didn't want the Lite beer label as part of the deal to buy out Meister Brau Inc., and discontinued the product.


French translations are not interesting without any explanations to them.


The French word Surnom meaning surname is purely unremarkable regardless of any explanation.


Without the explanation, the french word Surnom meaning surname is not particularly fascinating.


He actually wanted to buy beer for America, but a speech impediment kept him from expressing this clearly.


He did in fact threaten to bury America several times.


It was reported that he wanted to bury America even tho this was not true.


All of Mr Kaplan's generation has died off.


All of Mr Kaplan's generation still lives today.


Most of Mr Kaplan's generation has died off.


Despite this appearance, English speakers are not unusually prone to mental instability.


English is a very logical and consistent language.


The English language is so strange that it's speakers might seem crazy.


There are twelve articles collected together in the book.


There are twelve articles in the collection.


Echar sapos y culebras is considered to be profanity in Spanish.


Echar sapos y culebras means to throw out frogs and snakes in French.


Spanish profanity is imaginative; echar sapos y culebras means to throw out frogs and snakes.


Some languages are other languages combined.


Before there was language, in the times of the beginning people, it was impossible for people to determine Jim from John.


The beginning people identified themselves by using names.


The beginning people were the first people to use names.


Before going forth, the reader may wish to attempt this challenge.


The reader may want to try this challenge before proceeding.


The reader should proceed without attempting the pointless feat.


Grantsmanship used to be more popular in the nineteenth century.


Nobody ever begs for money while wearing nice clothes.


Well dressed beggars are sometimes called grantsmen.


The spelling of a word is just tied to the person who invented it.


The spelling of a word is tied to how it was used in ancient times.


The spelling of a word is tied to its history.


Richard Lederer asked for entries in a supersentence contest that consisted of sentences with eleven words.


Richard Lederer hates reading graceful or coherent writing.


The rules of a supersentence contest always require submission of sentences with exactly eleven words.


A missing hyphen might cause problems with computer instructions.


Many computer problems are caused by missing punctuation.


Mathematical instructions written for computers never contain errors.


We use modern spellings of words for titles by Shakespeare.


We use the modern spellings so we don't confuse each other.


A search was needed, but the two reference librarians didn't know how to start this process.


The lack of search capabilities was an embarrassment for the reference librarians.


The two reference librarians are experts in research and performed the needed search instantly.


Lucretius lived two thousand years ago and made plausible arguments.


Tautologists have honored the teachings of Lecretius for hundreds of years.


The arguments made by Lecretius have been proven incorrect by tautologists.


Feels like old fashioned preference, does it not.


Seems somewhat like the ideas of reformation and change making, does it not?


Sounds like the ideas of a predecessor, does it not?


I had lived my whole life on the Continent.


I had only been on the Continent for six months.


I wanted to buy some things for my girlfriend.


No one knows how the Flavian Amphitheater got its name.


The Flavian family left an impressive legacy that impacts history to this day.


Vespasian was an emperor, and the Flavian Amphitheater is named after him.


Both Indians and white settlers used the oil from Oil Creek.


Nobody ever used the oil from Oil Creek.


The oil was an effective medicine for the white settlers.


Some typographical errors are not the result of a hidden unconscious motive by the typesetter.


Typesetters and typists never make typographical errors.


Upon further investigation of typographical errors, the unconscious motives of typesetters can be uncovered.


Book-writing linguistics are almost ways scholars promoting their own scholarship.


Linguists make a lot of money writing books.


Most linguists write books in order to evangelize others' opinions.


The official technical manual states that pulse-tone is the correct term in this case.


The technical verbiage for this is not pulse-tone.


The use of the term pulse-tone is confusing because it it technically incorrect.


Broadway is too scared to make a show about shepherds.


The Construction Batallion is an independent organization not associated with the armed forces.


The Construction Batallion is one of the most important branches of the armed forces.


The abbreviation of the Construction Batallion of the armed forces is C.B.


Skeat is going to pay attention to the note.


Skeat isn't going to pay any attention to the note.


There are no laws or regulations surrounding trademarks.


There are two volumes of laws concerning trademarks.


Trademark law is very complicated and requires frequent references to the two volumes of the Annotated U.S.


I don't understand why they don't like the term Negro.


I understand why they don't like the word Negro.


Most other people agree that it is a racist term.


Mr. Nields liked to use those words because they were historic.


Mr. Nields said he was happy to use those words.


A program chairman prepared some introductory remarks.


Nobody prepared any introductory remarks.


The introductory remarks were very long.


Deborah Cameron and Deborah Hills have inside information about what happens at LBC Radio, which I find very interesting.


I am interested in LBC Radio, London's all-talk radio station and its programmes.


I don't own a radio and have no interest in listening to radio programmes.


Extensive research of the composition proved that the fire had to begin in the string section.


The impression given was that the fire started in the string section.


The string section was the only thing that remained after the fire, so obviously the fire started in another section.


What happens is a huge surprise for the audience.


A rash is the first external sign of syphilis.


There is a rash that comes along with some STIs.


The Gazette was the most popular newspaper in NY.


The Gazette was the news paper in Mexico.


The newspaper in NY was called the Gazette.


He has no noticeable accent and a perfectly normal intonation when he speaks standard English.


He is using standard English grammer and vocabulary found in newspapers, books, and magazines in an attempt to disguise himself, but his foreign accent gives him away.


His accent and possibly his intonation are what is noticeable when he uses standard English grammer and vocabulary.


They typed in numbers on the big grey keyboard.


They call the dents cute names to make the car owner feel better.


Cliches are a certain type of expression.


Grammar has changed so much that nobody can understand.


People who have trouble with grammar could certainly have trouble understanding.


I find some of the things worth my time.


That's just the normal way of things with money.


You could never know what happens with money.


Publishers are always happy to give tapes of their work out to anyone.


Publishers don't want to give researchers the tapes of the text because it might get released too early.


Publishers don't want to give researchers the tapes of the text.


Hackers enjoy translating computer slang into normal English.


Hackers would not understand what I just wrote.


I think hackers can generally understand computer jargon.


There are more than 100 syllothetic modifiers.


There are only 50 syllothetic modifiers.


Each Yiddish dialect pronounces the 'e' in this word differently.


The e in this word is pronounced the same in all varieties of Yiddish.


A dishonorable discharge is ordered for that person.


That person is being discharged honorably.


Cross-talk changes depending on the audience.


Cross-talk isn't acceptable for some audiences.


The meaning could not be understood by any of us.


The subjective satisfactory is a person.


The subjective satisfactory is not trouble.


Esperanto is a real language that already has all of the weaknesses of other languages.


Esperanto is spoken by less than one percent of the world's population.


Polysemy is one problem that natural languages have.


Jack Brooks is a politician from Nebraska.


It took place in no time at all, you know.


It was the quickest event I had ever experiences, you know.


The event took ages to come to an end, you know.


It is definitely not related to polytheism and monotheism.


It might be a go between between polytheism and monotheism.


It's the missing link between polytheism and monotheism.


Because my secretary spoke no English, I had to write the letters for her to type.


My secretary does not speak English or French, but I do.


When I took my first job, I could either read nor write in French.


He doesn't try because he has no motivation.


He is not worried because he doesn't try.


Women are included in the label of man now that feminism has progressed.


The list of pronunciation didn't help me at all.


The pronunciation list only included the most basic things.


Typewriters require electric assistance to form words.


Typewriters require the user to push the buttons with adequate force to form the letters.


Typewriters required no electric components.


Gruyare the cheese is nothing like the place.


You cannot separate Gruyare cheese from the place.


Are you able to see that curious little beast?


Do you see that curious beast over there?


One Swede church isn't the same as that Swedish church.


THe Swede Church and the Swedish church are the same.


The Swede Church and the Swedish church are pretty much different.


I was born in Iceland and grew up there, where there are no trains.


In the South, train stations are referred to as the depot, and pronounced DEE-po.


There were miles of train tracks near my parent's home in the South.


The intricate rule books outline all possible configurations of this sport.


The rules and guidelines of these sports are still unclear.


There are variations of this sport that can involve a net and a ball.


Some groups need make up new words to address changing times.


Lots of people from England speak more than one language.


No one in England can speak anything other than English.


People in England are required to speak more than one language.


France and Scotland share a treaty known as the Auld Alliance.


Japan and Sweden are members of the Auld Alliance.


The Auld Alliance between France and Scotland has been around for hundreds of years.


Niceness is not solely owned by Western tradition.


People in the west are far more nice than others.


Western tradition has a monopoly on ugliness.


Banquets and parquet mean the same thing.


The building is nicknamed Il Colossea Quadrato.


The caller was so glad someone was there to listen.


A slow and painful urine stream was the precursor.


Only after the relevant strangury did urination become free and flowing.


Strangury preceded the sexually transmitted disease.


Via della Scrofa is named after another sculpture.


Our vocabulary does not have a linguistic process.


Our vocabulary has a linguistic process.


New etymologies are really delicate to introduce.


You can just propose a new etymology whenever youw ant.


You hae to be careful when you think of a new etymology.


Davidson does not believe scone and bone should rhyme.


Davidson shouldn't talk in a way where bone and scone sound the same.


It would be better if Davidson rhymed the words scone and bone.


A 200,000 word novel at $25 is a fair price.


A 200,000 word novel for $25 is 4,000 words per dollar.


A 200,000 word novel for $25 is 8,000 words per dollar.