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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #725 on: January 07, 2015, 07:38:47 AM »
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #726 on: February 12, 2015, 02:42:47 PM »
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #727 on: February 23, 2015, 08:20:22 AM »
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Re: New column-type thingy
« 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.
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #729 on: February 26, 2015, 07:28:50 AM »
Celtic and the History of the English Language

Warning: it's really freaking long.

I just got around to reading this. Really interesting.


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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #730 on: February 26, 2015, 07:40:02 AM »
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #731 on: March 04, 2015, 12:24:38 PM »
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #732 on: March 05, 2015, 02:33:57 PM »
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #733 on: March 05, 2015, 03:33:30 PM »
Nicely analyzed.
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #734 on: March 05, 2015, 03:37:17 PM »
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #735 on: April 27, 2015, 12:06:37 PM »
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Re: New column-type thingy
« 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."

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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #737 on: April 27, 2015, 04:46:20 PM »
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #738 on: April 27, 2015, 07:28:56 PM »
Very interesting.

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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #739 on: May 18, 2015, 10:56:39 AM »
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Re: New column-type thingy
« 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.
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Re: New column-type thingy
« 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)
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #742 on: May 18, 2015, 12:48:31 PM »
That was a terrible poem you quoted.  (But a good column-type thingy).

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Re: New column-type thingy
« 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.

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Re: New column-type thingy
« 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.
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #745 on: May 18, 2015, 07:29:50 PM »
You folks are funny. :D

Nice column, Jonathon.


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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #746 on: May 18, 2015, 07:51:01 PM »
Thanks. :)
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #747 on: May 19, 2015, 12:21:48 PM »
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #748 on: May 19, 2015, 12:41:18 PM »
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #749 on: May 19, 2015, 01:31:05 PM »
You are both hilarious.
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