Showing posts with label Grammar & Language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grammar & Language. Show all posts

Word Choice Moment: Psych's Stanchions

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One of the most amusing aspects of script-writing is how often writers appear to be talking to each other. They have characters make comment...

Barney & Kleptaminaracks

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Shakespeare wasn't the only writer to play with language! In Season 2 of The Andy Griffith Show , "Guest of Honor," Barney exp...

Interview with the Translator: Twelve Kingdoms, More Wordplay

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Kate:   In a lot of manga and light novels, I come across the use of “restraint” to token…I’m not sure. I came across it initially in a ...

Interview with the Translator: Twelve Kingdoms, Grammar & All That Fun Stuff

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Fumi Yoshinaga's Ooku is one of the few manga series I've encountered that uses "courtly" language. Kate: I’m currently ...

How Language Works: Cliches

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In the opening scene to Poirot: Peril at End House , Hastings, played by the utterly sweet Hugh Fraser, comments on the scenery to Poirot:  ...
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Grammar & Language: Jokes Based on Definitions

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In "Andy's Rich Girlfriend," Andy Griffith Show , Season 3, Barney attempts to warn Andy about the perils of dating a rich gir...

The Challenges of Translation

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In the Elementary episode "We Are Everyone," Joan sits with her friend in the park. As they talk, Joan receives text images from S...

Grammar & Language Moment: Psych

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Script writers are writers . They are always playing with language and often they work their uncertainties about language into a script.  In...

Memorable Moments: Grammar in Last Man Standing

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In the Season 7 Last Man Standing Episode "Arrest Her Development" Mandy (new Mandy) tackles adjectives and adverbs on several oc...

Memorable Moment: Great Inflection in Bones, Season 3

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Despite the Gormagon plot (I'm not a fan of conspiracies and barely interested in serial killers), Bones , Season 3, includes some of ...

Memorable Moments: Including Another Great Castle Grammar Moment

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Castle has a lot of great grammar moments--which makes sense since Castle is a writer. In "He's Dead She's Dead," a Sea...

Memorable Moment: Grammar or Spelling Moment on Castle

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In "Home is Where the Heart Stops," a first season episode of Castle , Castle, Esposito and Ryan have the following discussion r...

Interview with the Translator: Edogawa, English and Japanese Grammar

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Kate: As your editor, I could not check your translation against the original. Other than raising questions about the plot and various cha...

Great Golden Girls Language Moment

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Blanche and Rose are overseeing try-outs for a charity talent show to save a lighthouse. Blanche, naturally, is favoring all the men. The di...
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Bad Grammar on Purpose: Law & Order

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In the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "Semi-Professional," good-old boy Judge Blakemore is questioned by Detectives Eam...

Great Grammar Closer Moment

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"Dumb Luck," a third season episode of The Closer, includes the stereotypical dumb blond (who is caught by far-from-dumb blond Br...

Weird Grammar Moment on Blue Bloods

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Just to make things confusing, this is a totally different definition than the one being discussed. In the "Fathers and Sons...

Wild Wonder of Language 2: We are Not Victims of Lingual Programming

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In The Language Instinct , Steven Pinker tackles the idea of linguistic determinism, the idea that language determines how people think. If ...
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The Wild Wonder of Language, Part 1

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My chosen book for the 400s in The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker, and it is so packed with ideas and insights that I will be postin...
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Weird Bones Grammar Moment

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In the episode with the dog (one of my favorites since, well, dogs ; plus Cesar Millan shows up), Bones and Booth visit the murdered veteri...