{"id":98,"date":"2021-03-01T11:03:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T18:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecornerlotauthors.com\/VivianHeather\/?p=98"},"modified":"2021-03-01T12:11:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T19:11:13","slug":"and-then-she-lost-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecornerlotauthors.com\/VivianHeather\/and-then-she-lost-it\/","title":{"rendered":"And Then\u2026 She Lost It!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It\u2019s really quite simple, this poor habit of hurried speech \u2013it harms no one at all, not the listener or the speaker. But in written form, oh my! Comments on social media, papers about to be handed in (yes I AM looking at you \u201cNight baker\u201d). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How on earth does THEN and THAN become interchangeable?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Uh-huh, no-way, not on my watch!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now to be clear, I am no editor. Line edits leave my hamster brain ready to perform Seppuku, whereas continuity and voice stand out to me like neon lights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some years ago, after much eye rollingand a brave, \u201cOh really Mum, does it matter?\u201d I wiped a fleck of foam from the corner of my mouth and explained it this way:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Would you rather wash the dishes THEN take out the garbage?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

OR\u2026. Would you rather wash the dishes THAN take out the garbage?<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Point taken, begrudgingly.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Words matter. Two dollar ones, ten dollar ones all have their place in our big tent predatory language. Be kind, be clever but for the love of the written word use them correctly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s a link to some common usage errors*<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are any of your bugbears missing from this list? Please indulge yourself in the comments below, you\u2019ll feel better. I certainly do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*I\/we are not responsible for the content linked, and have no affiliation with the content or sight representative. At the time of this post the link offers a list of common english language usage errors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

t\u2019s really quite simple, this poor habit of hurried speech \u2013it harms no one at all, not the listener or the speaker. But in written form, oh my! Comments on social media, papers about to be handed in (yes I AM looking at you \u201cNight baker\u201d) how on earth does THEN and THAN become interchangeable? – Vivian Heather<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"AND THEN... SHE LOST IT!\nby Vivian Heather\n\nHow on earth does THEN and THAN become interchangeable? Read more at TherCornerLotAuthors.com - click on VIVIAN HEATHER. \n\n#ThanVersusThen #GrammarWordplay #VivianHeather #TheCornerLotAuthors\n\n","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,3,16],"tags":[18,14,4,8,19,5,9],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-story","category-writing","tag-common-word-usage-errors","tag-humour","tag-story","tag-the-corner-lot-authors","tag-then-versus-than","tag-vivian-heather","tag-writing","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcMwsB-1A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecornerlotauthors.com\/VivianHeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecornerlotauthors.com\/VivianHeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecornerlotauthors.com\/VivianHeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecornerlotauthors.com\/VivianHeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecornerlotauthors.com\/VivianHeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thecornerlotauthors.com\/VivianHeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/thecornerlotauthors.com\/VivianHeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecornerlotauthors.com\/VivianHeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecornerlotauthors.com\/VivianHeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecornerlotauthors.com\/VivianHeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}