Language & Grammar discussion

That's very interesting, Alica. I'd never heard that term before. What fun it will be to use it next time my newspaper sins again.

The squint is news to me, too.

I am one who showed interest in squinting modifiers ... I seem to remember a reference a long time ago-- I think it was Beverly Cleary's Fifteen.

Thanks for the explanation Alicia! :)

The term "misplaced modifier" I know. It's the squinting I find colorful (and also a subdivision of "mm's").

Is a squinting modifier the same thing as a dangling modifier?

One modifier is celibate, the other a philanderer.

Snort and chuckle worthy comment there, NE!

I think I use too many commas . . .

I use --- and ... that way :)

This was an unending battle between editor Harold Ross at the New Yorker and writer James Thurber. Ross wanted commas most everywhere, Thurber wanted them most nowhere.

You can guess who won, right? (Hint: comma before right)