Author Topic: New column-type thingy (Read 107842 times)

Jonathon · « **Reply #725 on:** January 07, 2015, 07:38:47 AM »

On Visual Thesaurus and Vocabulary.com: Clear and/or Unclear

Jonathon · « **Reply #726 on:** February 12, 2015, 02:42:47 PM »

Jonathon · « **Reply #727 on:** February 23, 2015, 08:20:22 AM »

rivka · « **Reply #728 on:** February 23, 2015, 09:50:37 AM »

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Changing “doesn’t sound very exciting” to “it does not sound very exciting” is probably fine if you’re editing dialogue for Data from Star Trek, but it just isn’t how normal people talk.

Ela · « **Reply #729 on:** February 26, 2015, 07:28:50 AM »

Quote from: Jonathon on December 01, 2014, 08:44:37 AM

Celtic and the History of the English Language

Warning: it's really freaking long.

I just got around to reading this. Really interesting.

Jonathon · « **Reply #730 on:** February 26, 2015, 07:40:02 AM »

Thanks!

Jonathon · « **Reply #731 on:** March 04, 2015, 12:24:38 PM »

Why Descriptivists Are Usage Liberals

Jonathon · « **Reply #732 on:** March 05, 2015, 02:33:57 PM »

No, Online Grammar Errors Have Not Increased by 148%

rivka · « **Reply #733 on:** March 05, 2015, 03:33:30 PM »

Nicely analyzed.

Jonathon · « **Reply #734 on:** March 05, 2015, 03:37:17 PM »

Thanks!

Jonathon · « **Reply #735 on:** April 27, 2015, 12:06:37 PM »

Language, Logic, and Correctness

dkw · « **Reply #736 on:** April 27, 2015, 04:17:51 PM »

Nice.

I think you're missing a word, though: "one commenter named Kevin S. has made similar arguments Kory Stamper’s blog, Harmless Drudgery."

Jonathon · « **Reply #737 on:** April 27, 2015, 04:46:20 PM »

Ah, thanks.

rivka · « **Reply #738 on:** April 27, 2015, 07:28:56 PM »

Very interesting.

My favorite line

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This is why the war of the scriptivists rages on with no end in sight.

Jonathon · « **Reply #739 on:** May 18, 2015, 10:56:39 AM »

You Are Not Dr. Seuss

rivka · « **Reply #740 on:** May 18, 2015, 11:24:59 AM »

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[T]here are an awful lot of children’s book authors who apparently feel compelled to write in verse, despite being terrible at it.

Too, too true.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #741 on:** May 18, 2015, 12:15:52 PM »

That was a terrible poem you quoted. (But a good column-type thingy). I started reading it and moaned, "Oh no!", to which my husband, thinking I'd read some awful news, asked what happened. I had to admit that all that happened was that I read a bad poem on the internet. He said, "It must have been a really bad one."

"It was."

I used to love to read Dr. Seuss out loud to my son, because it was so much fun. Jack Prelutsky's, "Tyrannosaurus Was a Beast" was also a delight to read out loud, because of the rhythm of it; the rhyme was secondary. (Clankety clankety clankety clank. Ankylosaurus was built like a tank)

Jonathon · « **Reply #742 on:** May 18, 2015, 12:48:31 PM »

Quote from: Tante Shvester on May 18, 2015, 12:15:52 PM

That was a terrible poem you quoted. (But a good column-type thingy).

Thanks!

Dobie · « **Reply #743 on:** May 18, 2015, 12:51:55 PM »

You should have written it like this:

You're not Dr. Seuss.
You cannot write verse.
The rhythm is awful.
The meter's perverse.

So stick to your job.
Write your press releases.
Here's hoping that all
Of your "poetry" ceases.

Keith · « **Reply #744 on:** May 18, 2015, 02:48:15 PM »

A Suessian type you are not
Upon his good name you're a blot
Stop messing with Green Eggs
Go transcode some mpegs
Or read up on meter - a lot.

Ela · « **Reply #745 on:** May 18, 2015, 07:29:50 PM »

You folks are funny.

Nice column, Jonathon.

Jonathon · « **Reply #746 on:** May 18, 2015, 07:51:01 PM »

Thanks.

Jonathon · « **Reply #747 on:** May 19, 2015, 12:21:48 PM »

I am inordinately proud of this limerick.

Jonathon · « **Reply #748 on:** May 19, 2015, 12:41:18 PM »

My friend Alma just raised the bar.

rivka · « **Reply #749 on:** May 19, 2015, 01:31:05 PM »

You are both hilarious.