Have I told you I’m in a new book? I have not. Ladies and Gentlemen, meet Twitter Wit:

It’s a collection of clever Tweets from famous people and commoners like myself. It was edited by Nick Douglas, who just appeared on Martha Stewart to promote it. I am fairly sure he’s wearing eye shadow. You be the judge:
Cool, go you!
And my inner grammarian is just so relieved that the title says brilliance in 140 characters “or fewer,” instead of “or less.” It’s a thing of mine. ‘Cause, like, the barbarians are at the gate and all.
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I went to college with him! He graduated in my class. So crazy to see him on TV! Can’t wait to read the book.
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Those are the best Amazon reviews I have ever read. This book has to be awesome.
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you WERE TOTALLY on Martha and he was TOTALLY wearing eyeshadow!!
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am I allowed to be a little disappointed that the Amazon reviews weren’t limited to 140 characters or less?
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but it only says “fewer” on THIS site – the Amazon image shows “less”… ack!
i’m not sure if i can read it now. oh, okay, i totally will, just to find Maggie’s tweets.
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OMG Monica who? Hi!
Becky, I’m sorry to say it’s actually “or less.” (That’s an older cover mock-up.) Much as I sympathize, I’m a recent convert to non-prescriptive grammar, and HarperCollins and I decided “less” sounded better for a subtitle.
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HarperCollins hates grammar.
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Prescriptive and non-prescriptive grammar are two different forms of grammar love. The latter is clearly superior. And being a non-prescriptive grammarian makes Nick that much cooler.
Linguistics major. Can you tell?
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I really like Nick Douglas, so I can say this, but how does one interpret the fact that he didn’t invalidate the comments about possible eyeshadow?
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