Thomas Jefferson Ito, 89, of Kailua Kona, Hawaii, passed away peacefully on Sept. 8, 2024, at home with his family. He was born on Aug. 25, 1935, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Tom started his career with Chevron in 1960, in Honolulu, and was transferred to Anchorage, Alaska, in January 1975...
And these questions, as will have been perceived already, are moral questions no less than literary. That golden rule of generous service by which we do for others what we would have them do for us, is a rule of writing too. Every...
My third precept shall be, “Remember the other person.” I have been urging self-cultivation in English as if it concerned one person alone, ourself. But every utterance really concerns two. Its aim is social. Its object is communication; and while unquestionably prompted halfway by the desi...
Submitted by AL (Jefferson, TN) on 08.22.12 So me and my friend stayed at his house over night one evening and it was about time to go to bed and my friend belived in the boggie man at the time. so i told him that the boggie man was in his closet so he shit himself and st...
“Whenever,” says Thomas Jefferson, “by small grammatical negligences the energy of an idea can be condensed or a word be made to stand for a sentence, I hold grammatical rigor in contempt.”“Young man,” said Henry Ward Beecher to one who was pointing out grammatical errors in a ...