(So just what is a Blogging Blast??) — BLOGGING BLAST #6
“Your mother’s great-uncle-twice-removed named you in his will, but…”
“Everyone gets an extra vacation day this year, but…”
(And one of my personal favorites): “I apologize, but…”
Sometimes we only want to hear the first part of a sentence and go no further, which can cause, dare I say it, “a failure to communicate”. That little word “but” is a conjunction that Dictionary.com defines as “except, on the contrary, otherwise than”. Alright, so I really did know that; I’ll admit I had to check the same source to remind myself what a “conjunction” is. I quote: the act of Continue reading “Blogging Blast #6: I like big BUT’s (not a typo…)”