Monthly Archives: June 2009

003BTG Is Fiction Better than Nonfiction?

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Mignon

Hi, I’m Mignon Fogarty and this is Behind the Grammar, the podcast where I talk about language, marketing, social networking, interview interesting people, and talk about whatever else strikes my fancy. This show is not scripted, so I be warned…I … Continue reading →

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002BTG — What’s a Word? AP Includes Twitter Terms.

Posted on June 11, 2009 by Mignon

Behind the Grammar, June 11, 2009 [I don’t intend to have a transcript of this show every week, but I kind of accidentally wrote one while I was waiting for my dryer to stop making noise and I was thinking … Continue reading →

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001BTG Interview with JC Hutchins

Posted on June 9, 2009 by Mignon

In the first episode of my new podcast, Behind the Grammar, JC Hutchins coins a neologism (“vlurb”), reveals what JC stands for, and talks about how he wrote Personal Effect: Dark Art in two months and made his amazing video … Continue reading →

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iPhone With Video or the Flip?

Posted on June 8, 2009 by Mignon

I asked my Twitter friends whether I should upgrade my iPhone to the new version with video or buy a Flip camera. Here are the responses. (I used http://twickie.pirillo.com/ to compile the responses and it didn’t seem to grab all … Continue reading →

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What Do You Call Making Up Words?

Posted on June 5, 2009 by Mignon

In the book Personal Effects: Dark Arts by JC Hutchins (@jchutchins), a guy makes up words hoping people will use them (for example, he makes up the word “foolbiscuit” to mean idiot). My favorite pop-culture instance of this is the … Continue reading →

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