Author Topic: New column-type thingy (Read 111588 times)

Jonathon · « **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.

rivka · « **Reply #176 on:** August 01, 2011, 11:35:37 PM »

Interesting.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #177 on:** August 02, 2011, 12:15:29 AM »

I added a highly astute comment!

Marianne Dashwood · « **Reply #178 on:** August 02, 2011, 08:36:53 AM »

Your comment was, indeed, very profound.

Jonathon · « **Reply #179 on:** August 07, 2011, 04:18:32 PM »

And look! Another one!

rivka · « **Reply #180 on:** August 07, 2011, 05:21:07 PM »

Ooh, dissing Lynne Truss.

Jonathon · « **Reply #181 on:** August 07, 2011, 05:26:45 PM »

Only because she deserves it.

rivka · « **Reply #182 on:** August 07, 2011, 05:30:37 PM »

Now you are dead to me.

Marianne Dashwood · « **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?

Jonathon · « **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.

Marianne Dashwood · « **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.

Jonathon · « **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.

BlackBlade · « **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.

Jonathon · « **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.

pooka · « **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.

Jonathon · « **Reply #190 on:** August 24, 2011, 09:41:57 AM »

Ben Zimmer wrote about temblor and mentioned me!

pooka · « **Reply #191 on:** August 24, 2011, 10:19:50 AM »

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #192 on:** August 24, 2011, 10:32:46 AM »

I knew you before you were famous.

rivka · « **Reply #193 on:** August 24, 2011, 10:41:14 AM »

Congratulations, Jonathon. You have arrived!

pooka · « **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.

Jonathon · « **Reply #195 on:** August 24, 2011, 12:13:28 PM »

Quote from: pooka on August 24, 2011, 10:19:50 AM

Yay!

Quote from: Tante Shvester on August 24, 2011, 10:32:46 AM

I knew you before you were famous.

Quote from: rivka on August 24, 2011, 10:41:14 AM

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.

BlackBlade · « **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.

Marianne Dashwood · « **Reply #197 on:** August 24, 2011, 04:22:18 PM »

Jonathon · « **Reply #198 on:** August 30, 2011, 11:03:39 PM »

New post pondering the worth of prescriptivism.

Jonathon · « **Reply #199 on:** September 08, 2011, 07:56:41 PM »

More thoughts on the value of prescriptivism.