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Hellion Hellion There are many extragrammatical idioms breaking various 'laws', for instance: all of a sudden by and large curiouser and curiouser dog eat dog fight tooth and nail for free it never rains but it pours lead someone a merry dance look daggers at someone more fool you swear blind writ large. Edwin Ashworth Edwin Ashworth I wonder why "it never rains but it pours" ungrammatical. The sense of 'but' here is 'except'.

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That's what you want to know about. Therefore, none of your alternatives is correct: it should be "Please let us know how the thing is going. It has the correct word order for a question. You can turn it into a question with more punctuation: "Please let us know: How is the thing going? I assume that, if you really said this, you would substitute something specific for "the thing. You must log in or register to reply here.

We talk about a thing because we are engaged in cataloging. The question is whether something counts as a thing. Information is conveyed. What information?

So why the application of this homogenizing general term to all of them? I think there are four main reasons. First, the flood of content into the cultural sphere. That we are inundated is well known. Information besieges us in waves that thrash us against the shore until we retreat to the solid ground of work or sleep or exercise or actual human interaction, only to wade cautiously back into our smartphones. Second, the fragmentation of this sphere.