Reddit reviews The Little, Brown Handbook
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We found 4 Reddit comments about The Little, Brown Handbook. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
> I'm terrible at keeping abreast of current events around the world
The Middle East is a shit-show, a thousand different fragmented religious groups that all hate each other. Putin is taking over the frozen North. Europe is an interesting mix of quite well-off, stable countries and countries that are collapsing like the economic version of a flan in a cupboard. South America and Africa - third world, dont go there.*
> I know nothing about politics in my own country
As an American: Rob Ford, and you still have a Queen.
> or any country for that matter
Pick a country, then google it.
> my vocabulary and knowledge/use of grammar is subpar,
http://thesaurus.com/
http://dictionary.reference.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Little-Brown-Handbook-12th-Edition/dp/0205213073
> I don't know how to change a tire,
> it doesn't occur to me to notify the government when my mailing address changes
http://www.wikihow.com/Change-Address-when-Moving
> I sometimes need to check recipes for stuff like making rice (seriously),
Measure twice, cut once. Theres no shame in needing to check, and theres no need to waste brain space on things that can easily be checked.
> and I don't know what the letters in a lot of important acronyms stand for (NASA, ATM, NATO, etc.)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Automated Teller Machine
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
> HoW dO I bEcoMe LesS StOopiD?
Pretty much everything you listed can be solved by spending 5 minutes on google. Except the political stuff - people spend their entire lives studying politics and I bet most of them are still largely ignorant.
*(Note: This is meant to be a comedic, very significantly oversimplification of complex and intricate international issues.)
> There is no "correct"
I dare you to say that to an English teacher, while they're clutching their copy of "The Little Brown Handbook."
"of" and "the" in those examples aren't capitalized because they're small and common.
To get more explicit about it, this convention is called "Title Case", and comes from titles of books. The convention is this: most are words capitalized, except articles (a/an/the), short prepositions (of, on), and short conjunctions (and, or, but)—except when they're the first word in the phrase.
So, "The Bible", "God the Father", "Of Mice and Men", "On the Origin of Soecies", etc.
If you've got a decent enough grasp of the language (which it seems you do), something like The Little, Brown Handbook might be a good reference (or read) for questions like this.
Chances are I could go through my own history and find them just as well. Honestly you're more likely to find a bunch of stupid typos like probable instead of probably unless we're evaluating things from a formal writing perspective. But as I said before, this isn't really a formal writing sort of setting. The only reason I said anything was that I find it irksome when someone attempts to point out grammatical imperfections in someone's writing but then they're flatly wrong in doing so and then proceeds to argue the most rudimentary form of sentence construction as a defense. Methinks you would be truly shocked to see what actually constitutes a grammatically correct sentence. For example one can construct a sentence using only the word buffulo. If you're going to snark back and someone you should at least be right. And if it's grammar you're after you should probably grab a copy of the Little Brown Handbook at a minimum.
EDIT: mixed up link formatting :|