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Monthly Archives: July 2009

“Incredulous as it may sound…”

Thursday, July 23, 2009

was a hilarious line in Young Frankenstein.  Anyway, it was hilarious to members of the audience who recognized that the correct adjective in context was “incredible.”  Soon after the movie came out, though, I swear I noticed an uptick in the general misuse of “incredulous,” as though Mel Brooks had unwittingly (or, who knows, wittingly) [...]

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Consider the Ambivert

Thursday, July 2, 2009

      When I was a child, people were divided into two groups: extroverts and introverts. Introverts were thought to have something wrong with them: we were assumed to be timid, insecure creatures afraid of the light, and it was a given that we all secretly wished to be extroverts.  To turn inward, to keep one’s [...]

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