Thursday, November 12, 2009

Homecomings...

Here's a collection of videos showing how soldiers' dogs react to their coming home from deployment or training.  If you're a dog person, and even more so if you're proud of our soldiers, then...bring kleenex.  It's all good...

Homophones...

Homophones are words that sound alike but are spelled differently, and have different meanings.  They're a frequent cause of mistakes in written English.

Logan and Brandy are really, really fed up with the abuse of homophones.  So fed up that they've written a very funny (if a bit profane) page all about it, titled Learn Your Damn Homophones!.  As if by explanation, at the bottom of the page they say (complete with a link to an XKCD cartoon):
You think this is obscene? Do you even read any of the stupid shit you write? That’s obscene.
But it's more than just funny – you can actually learn something here...

Via reader Simon M.