Grunts from the Wordgrump (4)

>If you hold the position of a computer writer on the staff of the Washington Post, and you are on camera explaining the "cloud" to an interviewer, you should not need to be apprised that the verb to use when explaining the efficiency advantages of storing information in the cloud is expedite not expediate.  The latter is gibberish and makes you sound like a dope.

>Don’t respond to questions that have not been asked, especially in situations of intimacy or interrogation.

>"Despite the assurances of his letter, my brother returned was a different man."  You will be shocked that E.L. Doctorow could publish this "clumsy" sentence in Homer and Langley if you misidentify the main verb (as I did).  Then, when you see the cleverness of his syntax, you grin with delight.