It occurred to me that I never did explain why my posts suddenly stopped in January. Life has been a bit crazy since I posted last. On January 18th, after traveling to Indiana to find our new home, we were involved in a car accident. My dh fractured his back and I fractured my hand. I've been unable to post more than a few lines without pain for over two months and it looks like it'll be another two or three months for the healing process to complete. It took me a while, but I was able to get a post out on my JoJoisms blog. If you want more of the details, you can read about it there. I'll...
This is a new feature here on the Art of Eloquence blog. Many of my readers feel there has been a rein of error in communication these days. They cringe when they see misspellings, improper use of grammar and typos. This new feature of the AoE blog will turn your cringing into giggling. Here are this month's Rein of Error entries you can laugh at. No need to avert your eyes! It's safe to look. Can you spot all the errors? These are just a few of the ones we had personal experience with. This was my son's cake from a few years ago. This was an SAT Prep Book we chose...
As some of you know, last week's Year of Faith newsletter didn't come out because the Art of Eloquence site was hacked for the 4th time and my isp was blocked. It took so long for me to deal with it to where my web host fixed it that I had no time to get the newsletter out before I left for Indiana. (My family an I were out there for a week to find a new home. ) The day we were due to return to ARIDzona, we were involved in a car accident. Our car rolled over. My dh's back was injured pretty badly an I might have broken my finger. So I am only able to type...
One of the most popular sayings quoted in graphics posted on social media right now was popularized by the movie Rush Hour. In this scene, LAPD Detective Carter on loan to the FBI is asked to babysit a police officer from China to keep him away from the kidnapping case they are trying to solve. Inspector Lee, played by Jackie Chan, pretends not to speak English in order to get as much information out of Detective Carter as he can. Later on, Lee lets it slip that he does speak English and Carter asks him why he made him believe otherwise. Lee says, “I didn't say I didn't, you assumed I didn't…I'm not responsible for your assumptions.” Oh, wasn’t he?...
Here is part two of my article from last week called Conversation Correction Patrol: My advice when you post on Twitter and Facebook (or any of the other social networking sites) is to stop before you publicly disagree with someone. Yes, even an obscure post on Twitter or Facebook is a public post. Reflect on these questions before you hit the “share” button: 1. Is it really a mistake or are you reading too much into it? Are you perhaps being too picky, stretching the meaning, reading it out of context? Is what they posted really a problem or are you looking for situations in which the statement could be taken another way. Did the other party mean it the...
