Hoke’s Ramblings

I just thought I'd comment on marvellous it is to be able to be driving back from Witbank in the middle of nowhere (as a passenger) and be able to post a blog entry.

Now if only my laptop had integrated bluetooth so I didn't have to have this silly grey dongle flashing its blue lights at me all the time.

Anyway, as you may have noticed the theme's changed – just updated my blog engine, and thought I'd do away with the yellow and blue for a while.

The new update of SPHPB allows backdating of entries, so there's still an outside chance of there being a blog entry of my week in Mozambique last november.

More next time.

Since I have been branded for all eternity as a pedantic spelling enthusiast, I thought I may as well have my own symbol.

As least I can’t be accused of being anti-semantic

What a wonderful language we have. The book I'm reading at the moment is 'Mother Tongue' by Bill Bryson, which is an entertaining, but in-depth look at the origins of English.

It really does make me realise that's it's quite pointless wasting efforts on grammar and spelling, because we speak such a bastardised hodge-podge tongue anyway.

But nonetheless, I'd like to draw your attention to this article, citing numerous other references to “the proof is in the pudding” being a modernised contraction of the somewhat wordy, although admittedly more sensible saying, “the proof of the pudding is in the eating”.

Oh, and the only reason you can't split infinitives is because some deranged monk centruries ago didn't think it was a good idea.

So boldy go, all of ye!

FLAME SHIELDS UP!