Author Topic: New column-type thingy (Read 107849 times)

rivka · « **Reply #900 on:** May 09, 2018, 10:39:10 PM »

Yeah, I can't claim to be surprised.

Jonathon · « **Reply #901 on:** May 10, 2018, 09:27:28 AM »

To be fair, it's a lot of stuff to try to cram into one post, plus it never really goes over well when you tell a bunch of people, "This thing that you think is so valuable and take so much professional pride in is totally bogus."

rivka · « **Reply #902 on:** May 10, 2018, 10:15:39 AM »

Agreed on both points.

I actually started reading the post thinking it was going to be one of the ones I disagree with you on. (Although I find those interesting most of the time too.) But you made a number of really good points.

Also, it happens not to be one of the specific usage issues that I care about.

Jonathon · « **Reply #903 on:** May 10, 2018, 10:19:53 AM »

Thanks! I was getting so much pushback on Twitter that I was starting to feel like I was shouting down a well.

rivka · « **Reply #904 on:** May 10, 2018, 10:51:19 PM »

If I'm Echo, does that make you Narcissus?

Jonathon · « **Reply #905 on:** May 11, 2018, 07:32:50 AM »

Ha! Sadly accurate.

Dobie · « **Reply #906 on:** May 11, 2018, 12:40:56 PM »

Quote from: Jonathon on May 09, 2018, 08:46:26 PM

Well, I'm glad you think so, because I'm having a LOT of arguments on Twitter with editors who don't seem to have read the whole thing.

Referring to people who argue on Twitter, "who don't seem to have read the whole thing" is redundant.

Jonathon · « **Reply #907 on:** June 07, 2018, 10:00:50 AM »

A newsletter that I write for is changing from a newsletter to premium online articles. The first three are free, including my column on cleft sentences. Check it out!

rivka · « **Reply #908 on:** June 07, 2018, 11:13:44 AM »

Interesting! I knew that sentences could be restructured for emphasis (as probably most native English speakers do), but I had no idea there was a name for it.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #909 on:** June 08, 2018, 04:04:23 AM »

I enjoyed that.

There is a typo in the eighth paragraph, reserve instead of reverse.

Jonathon · « **Reply #910 on:** June 08, 2018, 09:21:36 AM »

Thanks, Rivka and Esther. I'll let them know about the typo.

Jonathon · « **Reply #911 on:** July 05, 2018, 11:50:54 AM »

I Request You to Read This Post

rivka · « **Reply #912 on:** July 05, 2018, 12:48:27 PM »

Interesting.

Jonathon · « **Reply #913 on:** July 05, 2018, 01:17:15 PM »

Thanks.

Jonathon · « **Reply #914 on:** October 10, 2018, 09:02:36 AM »

100,000 Words Whose Pronunciations Have Changed

Ela · « **Reply #915 on:** October 10, 2018, 12:05:20 PM »

Only 100,000?

Also, the "great vowel shift" mystifies me. I'm assuming it happened over time, not all of a sudden.

Jonathon · « **Reply #916 on:** October 10, 2018, 12:10:54 PM »

Maybe I should do a post on it sometime. It happened over a period of a few centuries, so yeah, it was definitely not a sudden thing.

Ela · « **Reply #917 on:** October 10, 2018, 12:52:45 PM »

I'd read it. I've heard people talk about it, but I've never really absorbed what exactly happened or why.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #918 on:** October 10, 2018, 02:18:31 PM »

My link only gave me the first four words on the list. Is the remainder of the list behind a paywall?

Seriously, this kind of thing is just the trigger to geek out this word nerd.

Jonathon · « **Reply #919 on:** October 10, 2018, 02:47:25 PM »

Yes. You have to subscribe to The Oxford English Dictionary to get the rest.

rivka · « **Reply #920 on:** October 10, 2018, 07:32:03 PM »

Jonathon · « **Reply #921 on:** January 09, 2019, 11:17:20 AM »

An Etymological Workout

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #922 on:** January 10, 2019, 11:02:05 AM »

That was fabulous! I'm quite impressed.

Jonathon · « **Reply #923 on:** January 10, 2019, 11:04:21 AM »

Thanks!

rivka · « **Reply #924 on:** January 13, 2019, 09:27:28 AM »

Quote from: Tante Shvester on January 10, 2019, 11:02:05 AM

I'm quite impressed.

Same here!