My brain just had a minor meltdown while scanning Google News. I'm obviously in an odd mood to be doing that.

I saw a story starting with the phrase:
By Sabra Lane for PM Mr Turnbull says the Opposition supports private health (blahtc)

Mr Turnbull is PM now - WTF?!? Discard that idea. Sabra Lane for PM. Who the hell is Sabra Lane, and why are they running for PM? Why would the ABC (government media) let anybody use that in their name? Discard. Go in mental circles, and even search Google for Sabra Lane.

After a while staring at unhelpful results, I realise that PM is one of ABC Radio's shows.

That is the term I was searching for, but I think I have just had to coin it after the moment passed. I can only find "differently socialized" (they're American, so that's fine,) which is talking about socialisation of dogs vs wolves.

I have just had a strange exchange where I tried to explain that I am differently socialed. Although I dislike shit along the lines of 'differently abled', I like my term because I enjoy applying an odd type of humour to myself.

I have just been shocked in a good way, because the founder of a social networking type site has asked how I like it. And they explained something about the way it works that really was very informative. And, and - were behind an old site that I still miss.

I suspect it was like a standard message thing, but I still rate it highly to even care enough to ask in a formulaic way.  read more »

Sad really. After getting through a series of posts and stories about english teachers having no idea about grammar, I have emailed a professor who is one of the authors of the Cambridge Grammar.

I started with "Grammar in Australian schools" as the subject, then extended it to "Grammar in Australian schools (really - this is about me getting angry in grade 5, and still being angry)".

I did introduce my rant with a paragraph about how I am sure he doesn't need to hear about what followed, but stressed that I just couldn't hold it in.  read more »

Via Language Log (which I am not keeping up to date with), There is an article in The Australian about teaching and grammar.  read more »