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		<title>I Like This Alot.</title>
		<link>http://xrlq.com/2010/04/24/i-like-this-alot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 00:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And if bad spelling and grammar annoy you half as much as they do me, you will too.]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter is Evil</title>
		<link>http://xrlq.com/2009/10/30/twitter-is-evil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xrlq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bloggess (h/t: Robb Alllen) has the proof. Meanwhile, I&#8217;d like a little grammatical help from you, the reader. Which of the following is the most appropriate past tense for tweet? twate twote tweeten twitten tweetered [Censored] Other (specify)]]></description>
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		<title>Ikean 201</title>
		<link>http://xrlq.com/2009/08/29/ikean-201/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swedish names sound even dumber when butchered by Southerners.]]></description>
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		<title>Ikean 101</title>
		<link>http://xrlq.com/2009/08/29/ikean-101/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xrlq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IKEA has an annoying habit of being too lazy to write instruction manuals for their furniture, relying instead on a bunch of cutesy drawings that are supposed to tell you what you need to do. Recently I purchased a bookshelf (Expedit) and learned this lesson the hard way. For future reference, this: means &#8220;on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memo to John Bolton</title>
		<link>http://xrlq.com/2009/07/25/memo-to-john-bolton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xrlq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The God. Damned. Word. Is. &#8220;negotiate.&#8221; Nuh-GO-she-ate. Not &#8220;negoseeate.&#8221; Please make a note of it. Thank you.]]></description>
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		<title>On &#8220;Abortion Rights&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://xrlq.com/2009/07/25/on-abortion-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xrlq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Medved argues that the phrase &#8220;abortion rights&#8221; is biased in favor of abortion because the use of the word &#8220;rights&#8221; presupposes that abortion is in fact a right. I say, the language police has made a false arrest. For one thing, abortion is a right, both as a matter of state law (recall that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Passive Voice Should Be Shunned</title>
		<link>http://xrlq.com/2009/07/17/the-passive-voice-should-be-shunned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xrlq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed how often people use agent-free verb forms like &#8220;past&#8221; participles or the passive voice to avoid putting their own reputations on the line? As in, &#8220;it got broken&#8221; vs. &#8220;I broke it?&#8221;. Or &#8220;so-and-so is a trusted/respected journalist&#8221; vs. &#8220;I trust/respect so-and-so, and here&#8217;s why I think you should, too.&#8221; Sometimes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Filling the Gap</title>
		<link>http://xrlq.com/2009/06/09/filling-the-gap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xrlq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Linguists call it a &#8220;lexical gap&#8221; when a word doesn&#8217;t exist that probably should. Ain&#8217;t, for example, was once a perfectly fine contraction for &#8220;am not.&#8221; Once it fell out of favor, we were left with no first person equivalent of aren&#8217;tisn&#8217;t, resulting in such ludicrous tag questions as: I&#8217;m really smart, aren&#8217;t I? Yes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learnin&#8217; Them Locals to Talk Good</title>
		<link>http://xrlq.com/2009/03/15/learnin-them-locals-to-talk-good/</link>
		<comments>http://xrlq.com/2009/03/15/learnin-them-locals-to-talk-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xrlq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend I was at the Trader Joe&#8217;s in Richmond, VA (the one that wasn&#8217;t there when I actually lived there, grrrr&#8230;) and overheard a conversation between two employees. She had an obvious southern accent, so let&#8217;s call her the local. His speech resembled my California non-accent, so he could have been from anywhere. Let&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whither Freedom Fries?</title>
		<link>http://xrlq.com/2008/11/05/whither-freedom-fries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xrlq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that freedom is cool in France but passé in the States, what are we supposed to call that delicacy known as chips in Britain? Hope fries? Change fries? Bitter-clinger fries? Economic justice fries? What?]]></description>
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