Merry Chrismahanakwanza...
- Thread starter Joe Dressner
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Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
Not only that but there have been virtually uncontrolled outbreaks of "varietal", the greengrocers' apostrophe, and a very curious spelling of hoosegow.
While there are many causes that merit my attentions, let me agitate here briefly for these:
1. Brad Kane is right: re-posts of older TNs, for the purpose of stocking the search engine's cellar, are valuable.
2. The Politburo is right: de-credential the miscreant Party Member and then let the event fade from view.
3. Pedantry is right: advocating illiteracy is a foolish position to take. Promoting one's own manner of speech as being somehow uniquely avant-garde is all good and well but do not mistake an idiolect for a dialect.
4. Joe Perry is so young: always.
Jeff
While there are many causes that merit my attentions, let me agitate here briefly for these:
1. Brad Kane is right: re-posts of older TNs, for the purpose of stocking the search engine's cellar, are valuable.
2. The Politburo is right: de-credential the miscreant Party Member and then let the event fade from view.
3. Pedantry is right: advocating illiteracy is a foolish position to take. Promoting one's own manner of speech as being somehow uniquely avant-garde is all good and well but do not mistake an idiolect for a dialect.
4. Joe Perry is so young: always.
Jeff
Bill Averett
Bill Averett
Assuming I am being called out in #3, I will take time to comment:
I will strive to frame my sentences better in future posts/comments for all of the pedants. Although I will shamefully admit that I was an English major, now posing as a wine guy, I will not excuse myself for bastardizing the language while either under a wine haze or coffee daze.
I take offense at the so called "advocating illiteracy" comment.
Lastly, "I'm not a complete idiot. There are some parts missing."
Chris Coad
Chris Coad
Whew. I thought he was talking about me, and was inclined to merely cower in silence and knock off the "Illiterasy FTW!!!" posts.
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No. No. It was clearly aimed at me.
Go Moose yourself, Jeff!
Go Moose yourself, Jeff!
Chris Coad
Chris Coad
I think it would behoof Jeff to clarify his intentions in this matter.
Eden Mylunsch
Eden Mylunsch
Grab a hold of yourself, man! Have you no sense of propriety and common decency? What, were you raised in a barn?
Hell, it was okay for Shakespeare to make up words so why not here? What if one of us is the reincarnated Bard himself, returned to create new horivistas of a vocabular nature? Wouldst that they be shouted down by the complacent among us, those who balk at a workshop situation such as this that might "push the envelope" of the limits of their inflexible phraseology?
Let a thousand flowers bloom, and allow nouns to become verbs and vice-versa, if the context requires it.
Is this like when my lawyer signs something "Dictated, but not read"? Thanks for your honesty, you probably have a life and important things going on, but I've always read everything that you've written...sistahs gotta stick together and all that, y'know?
-Eden (what would Eckhart Tolle have to say about all of this?)
Chris Coad
Chris Coad
Didn't this thread used to be called something else?
Like A Plea for Something...?
I find this rampant and retroactive use of the edit feature somewhat disorienting.
I'm going to go edit some of my old responses now, though. It could be fun.
Like A Plea for Something...?
I find this rampant and retroactive use of the edit feature somewhat disorienting.
I'm going to go edit some of my old responses now, though. It could be fun.
Eden Mylunsch
Eden Mylunsch
I like it! It's fresh! New! Exciting!
It'll keep me engaged, because if I'm not, I sometimes forget which threads I posted on.
Thanks Joe for keeping this place hopping, whichever direction it hops in!
-Eden (I haven't been on my toes this much since I took ballet lessons as a youth)
It'll keep me engaged, because if I'm not, I sometimes forget which threads I posted on.
Thanks Joe for keeping this place hopping, whichever direction it hops in!
-Eden (I haven't been on my toes this much since I took ballet lessons as a youth)
Joe Dressner
Joe Dressner
I can no longer get up on my right toes. My right foot is dead. The tumor on the left side of my brain has killed it.
Chris Coad
Chris Coad
When is this '64 molleux showing up under my Hannukah bush?
Chris Coad
Chris Coad
Mucho wilted bush by then.
January no bush time.
January no bush time.
Ian Fitzsimmons
Ian Fitzsimmons
The varietal vigilantes possed up to bring me to justice several weeks ago, so I doubt this was directed at you personally. You cannot read more than a few of Jeff's notes, without realizing that he cherishes unusually strong feelings about English usage. His passion manifests itself both in his posts, which carefully-crafted and always a pleasure to read, and in the artistic temperament he brings to the more reckless scribblings of such as you and I (if I may take the liberty of grouping us togther).
In any event, Disorder is a community of eccentrics, so you may as well roll with the flak. On the other hand, it should be possible to steer a middle path between good diction and good manners.
Looking forward to your next set of notes.
Frank Deis
Frank Deis
Does he play soccer?
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
Frank, does that solid -- alternating pentagons and hexagons -- have a name?