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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #175 on: August 01, 2011, 11:25:22 PM »
Look! A new post! I wrote most of it tonight, so if it sounds jumbled or confused, it's probably because I'm tired. Feedback, as always, is appreciated.
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #176 on: August 01, 2011, 11:35:37 PM »
Interesting.
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #177 on: August 02, 2011, 12:15:29 AM »
I added a highly astute comment!
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #178 on: August 02, 2011, 08:36:53 AM »
Your comment was, indeed, very profound.
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #179 on: August 07, 2011, 04:18:32 PM »
And look! Another one!
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #180 on: August 07, 2011, 05:21:07 PM »
Ooh, dissing Lynne Truss.

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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #181 on: August 07, 2011, 05:26:45 PM »
Only because she deserves it. :pirate:
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #182 on: August 07, 2011, 05:30:37 PM »
Now you are dead to me.
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #183 on: August 07, 2011, 05:59:00 PM »
Remember that time she spoke at a BYU forum? Did the entire linguistics department boycott?
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #184 on: August 07, 2011, 06:01:49 PM »
Good question. I'm sure the editing faculty attended, even if the linguists didn't. I wasn't able to go because I had to work.
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #185 on: August 07, 2011, 07:02:02 PM »
I wonder if she had a question-and-answer at the end and got the full weight of descriptivism cast down upon her.
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #186 on: August 07, 2011, 07:12:44 PM »
That would have been awesome, but I'm pretty sure it didn't happen. I think I caught the tail end of it on BYU Broadcasting.
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #187 on: August 08, 2011, 08:00:41 AM »
I can't imagine it was worse than when Michael Moore came to Utah Valley University. He was actually quite effective at manipulating a crowd, but it was very mixed crowd with much of it hostile.
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #188 on: August 08, 2011, 09:26:40 AM »
Oh, I doubt there was any hostility towards Lynne Truss. She's only disliked by very small subset of the population, whereas Michael Moore is much more polarizing.
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #189 on: August 15, 2011, 05:31:14 AM »
I commented at the blog.  The thing is that there is something inherently funny about how much linguists, editors, and other wordies care about this stuff. 
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #190 on: August 24, 2011, 09:41:57 AM »
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #191 on: August 24, 2011, 10:19:50 AM »
Yay!
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #192 on: August 24, 2011, 10:32:46 AM »
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #193 on: August 24, 2011, 10:41:14 AM »
Congratulations, Jonathon. You have arrived!
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #194 on: August 24, 2011, 10:48:39 AM »
I totally thought it was tremblor back in the day, which I also thought was pretentious.  I just mentally inserted the r.  I didn't know it was temblor until Annie was screeding about it and I tried to correct her spelling. :blush:
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #195 on: August 24, 2011, 12:13:28 PM »
Yay!
I knew you before you were famous.
Congratulations, Jonathon. You have arrived!

And it's thanks to Twitter, which I signed up for just a few weeks ago. I noticed a huge spike in traffic at Arrant Pedantry and my Spreadshirt store (eighty hits in one day instead of maybe one), and it was apparently because someone mentioned my shirts on Twitter. So I signed up and started following some people. Between that first spike at the beginning of August and now, I've sold eight shirts, which is more than I'd sold in the previous year and a half. And when a couple of people mentioned the word "temblor" yesterday, I replied with a link to my post. Voila! I'm internet famous.
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #196 on: August 24, 2011, 12:45:11 PM »
That really is awesome Jonathon. I hope Mr. Zimmer found your blog interesting enough to warrant repeat visits and mentions. And yes the surge in traffic was probably nice. :)
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #197 on: August 24, 2011, 04:22:18 PM »
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #198 on: August 30, 2011, 11:03:39 PM »
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #199 on: September 08, 2011, 07:56:41 PM »
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