gram·ma·ry /ˈɡramərē/
noun: A blog of thoughts, news, and everything insightful! #Hello1HP
gram·ma·ry /ˈɡramərē/
noun: A blog of thoughts, news, and everything insightful! #Hello1HP
Blogs have dominated the Internet for two decades now and have grown from humble personal pages into professional archives, effective marketing tools, and interactive resources. If you’re still feeling stuck on where you belong in the blogosphere, read on to find out more about the many kinds of blogs. Online Diaries Blogs originated in the ’90s as a way for people to log their experiences, reflections, and opinions. In fact, the word “blog” itself is a shortened version of “web logging.” Early blogs allowed people to create archives of memories, very much like how one keeps a diary. Another function of early blogs was to serve as an archive of links that one may find useful......
Magic is very much real in The Magicians—it’s not just the parlor trick street magicians do. There’s even a school for it: Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy. The Magicians is a SyFy series that first aired on December 16, 2015. Based on Lev Grossman’s adult trilogy of the same name, it follows Quentin Coldwater and his best friend Julia Wicker as they discover their talents for magic. Quentin gets into Brakebills, and there, he meets the astute Alice, royal duo Margo and Eliot, traveler Penny, and battle magician Kady. The show sees this ensemble go on a whimsical adventure filled with strange magic, gory consequences, and a lot of jumping between worlds as they attempt to defe......
As one of the most renowned English writers in Philippine history, Nick Joaquin crafted memorable stories that not only promoted a multifaceted appreciation for Filipino culture but also presented hard-hitting critique and insights into the religious, political, and socioeconomic history of his overcolonized home country, a true testament to the saying “The pen is mightier than the sword.” Joaquin was born in Paco, Manila, on May 4, 1917, the fifth of ten children whose mother was an English/Spanish teacher and whose father was a colonel under Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo during the Philippine Revolution of 1896 against Spanish colonizers. As a child, Joaquin was an avid reader of his mother......
Tripping over in front of a crowd can be embarrassing, painful, and sometimes, scarring. Misusing a word can be just as mortifying, but what’s important is that we recover from the fall and learn from our mistake. The words keel and kneel tend to confuse people with their similarities—let’s get into their specifics now before we learn them the hard way. Keel and kneel have nearly the same spelling, and this can make it hard to read. But they differ substantially in their pronunciation, as their first syllables are pronounced differently. The former starts with a /k/ sound, and the latter begins with an /n/ sound. Reading the words out loud will help determine which is which at the ons......
Fiction’s been around for a long time, and the number of imaginary worlds in our universe just keeps expanding. But where did it all begin? Who first wrote their daydream down and called it fiction? Funny enough, the history of fiction is linked to the origins of the word history itself. The earliest lead is from way, way back in the 12th century. Back then, books were uncommon. It’s rather questionable why books wouldn’t be popular, but that’s a debate for another day. Now, despite that, there was one household title almost everyone knew: the Bible. The Bible contained parables that were believed to be true. In the old days, any story that any......
“It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.” Award-winning science fiction and fantasy author Ursula K. Le Guin passed away last January 22, 2018. The author’s death was officially announced by her family through her Facebook page. Le Guin passed away in her home in Portland, Oregon. Her son Theo Downes-Le Guin did not disclose the cause of her death but said that she had been in poor health for several months. She was 88 years old. Le Guin is most popular for novels such as The Left Hand of Darkness, a 1969 science fiction novel set on a planet called Gethen, and her young adult Earthsea series. She wrote 20 novels and more tha......
Question: When typing sentences, do you hit the space bar twice or just once? If you’re wondering why someone would double-space after sentences, well, you were probably born in the late 1990s or in the 2000s, so read on to find out. One of the hottest debates in editing these days involve the humble space bar. Apparently, people are still arguing whether or not a double space is required after sentences, considering that we all use computers. For someone who’s been using computers all their life, this may seem like a no-brainer. However, let’s go back to a time before computers were as sleek and small as they are today. When typesetting was new, all characters were given the sam......
In the late nineties, one novel—film director and screenwriter Stephen Chbosky’s only novel—resonated with a self-conflicted yet emotionally rich generation of young adults. Since then, he has been dubbed one of the most moving and intimate storytellers for young American readers, turning the spotlight on teen issues, childhood trauma, and lasting friendships. Chbosky was born on January 25, 1970, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, his mother a tax preparer and his father an executive and consultant at a steel factory. As a fan of “the classics, horror, and fantasy, the young Chbosky admired the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tennessee Williams, and J. D. Salinger—particularly The Catcher i......
