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Category Archives: Bartlett
When I use a word
Posted in Albedo, Bartlett, Observatorio, Science, Vance Parker, Words, e-Discovery, regex()
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Tagged meaning, semantic, usage
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Amusing Ourselves to Death by Stuart McMillen – cartoon Recombinant Records
Orwell or Huxley right about dystopia?
Posted in Bartlett, O mores, Vance Parker, meditation
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Tagged 1984, brave new world
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50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice – ChronicleReview.com
Notice what I am objecting to is not the style advice in Elements, which might best be described the way The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy describes Earth: mostly harmless
Posted in Bartlett, Escalier, In re, Words, regex()
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Tagged bunk, grammar, polemic, received wisdom
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Here there be dragons
“On the eastern coast, Hc sunt Dracones must refer to the Dagroians of Marco Polo”
The Claremont Institute – Man of a Thousand Faces
“How astonishing that, in a language we no longer know precisely how to pronounce, a poet or various poets whose faces and characters we cannot conceive, who lived in a society of whose customs and beliefs we have but a … Continue reading →
Alex Prager Photography / The Big Valley, 2008 / Eve
OTP (Via The ever enlightening publishers of the Field Book series.)
ARTHUR F. KINNEY, Shakespeare’s Falstaff as Parody
“Martlemas, the feast of St. Martin , celebrated on November 11″
Hadn’t the time to make it shorter
“Mes Reverends Peres, mes lettres n’avaient pas accoutume de se suivre de si pres, ni d’etre si etendues. Le peu de temps que j’ai eu a ete cause de l’un et de l’autre. Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que … Continue reading →
Has modern life killed the semicolon? – By Paul Collins – Slate Magazine
“Fiorello LaGuardia’s favorite put-down for egghead bureaucrats who got in his way was ‘semicolon boy.’ “