Rumsfeld Doesn't Know if He's Lost His Mojo
 

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Thursday he does not know whether or not he has lost his mojo, as a leading news magazine suggested, because he doesn't really know what mojo is.

So what's the plural of "mojo?"

Rumsfeld Doesn't Know if He's Lost His Mojo
 

it's a mass noun, not a count noun. so no plural.

What's the plural of "virus?"
 

Well, you seem to be saying no one can tell the difference between the singular and plural of coitus anyways.

Is this based on experience, or academic research?

From the N.Y. Times, no less:

"Rather than simply lamenting the the economy, the Democrats now say that one good quarter does not erase three sluggish years. The growth has not caused a rebound in the job market, they note, and large budget deficits loom for years."

Tsk. Tsk.

Women are all the same, it seems.
 

The Final Frontier
 

Since when has it been acceptable to use the term "space" to apply to markets? If I read another biz-speak article saying shit like "In 1998, TechnoCom.com was the first to realize the potential of the live B2B chat space for CRM inquiry tracking and response" I'm gonna scream.

It's a metaphor that's actually less illustrative and visual than all the words it replaces.

The Final Frontier
 

Since people in the tech. business decided not to be governed by the traditional rules of the English language. It's hellish. Have I related the story of an ad that runs in DC in which some guy is spouting a bunch of techno-jargon like "space" and "tasked" and "paradigm" and blah blah blah, and the company says something like "if you want results, and a company that speaks your language, call us. We're an IT company that talks a language you know." So effective I have no idea what the name of the company is. But it's a funny ad. If you were there, of course.

Peppermint, Hamburgers, and now, RICE!
 

The Washington Post isn't safe either:

". . . farmers in recent decades have learned to grow wild rice in patties in flooded fields, which allows growers to harvest the rice using combines."

And I thought only hamburgers were grown in patties.

From the Department of Redundancy Department
 

From deanforamerica.com:

". . . we've cut our state's child abuse rate nearly in half, and child sexual abuse of kids under 6 is down by 70%."

Who would've thought that Vermont had a serious problem of children molesting other children?

International Olympiad in Linguistics
 

Problems (and solutions) from the First International Olympiad in Theoretical, Mathematical and Applied Linguistics.

The problems are not unlike those that the NSA gives you during a screening interview, except that the NSA's problems are less wordy.

Strong Bad's Rhythm 'N Grammar
 

http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail89.html [spree: contains audible stuff]

At the very end, be sure to click on Trogdor's arm (that muscular arm thingy sticking out next to "a> back"). When a CD cover appears, click on it (with each click, a different grammatical admonition is sung out of tune).

Heard on NPR
 

Indeed.

It was corrected in the transcript, but the ears don't lie.

In defense of the double modal.
 

I.e., "I might could come tomorrow."

I take it from the lack of activity here that everyone has learned to speak and write proper English much better since this board was first created.

So the job is done.

In case you haven't noticed, this board is called Language, not English, which is a subset of the former. Therefore, until everyone has learned to speak properly every language in existence, our work is not done.