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Monthly Archives: August 2008
Anne Trubek on Why We Shouldnt Still Be Learning Catcher in the Rye
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Its main appeal to students, he argued, is simply that the young like to read about the young, prefer short books, and ones without too many references to other books. Salinger, he says, flatters [their] very ignorance and moral shallowness”
(Via Good Magazine:.)
SEC Announces Successor to EDGAR Database (Press Release No. 2008-179; August 19, 2008)
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
EDGAR, we hardly knew ye
Sex and the semicolon - The Boston Globe
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Debate continues
There is another, invisible punctuation rule that is blissfully free of any semantic baggage: the second space after . : and ?
Passionate defenders of the rule go so far as to declare it a rule of grammar. Their opponents just do not want to see blank snakes running through their copy. It [...]
How Low Interest Rates Contributed to the Credit Crisis - WSJ.com
Sunday, August 17, 2008
The preferred formula for manufacturing high returns in a low-rate environment is actually quite simple: utilize large amounts of leverage.”
presume, v.: OED Word of the Day
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Today’s word from the OED has the following earliest quotation:
a1382 Prefatory Epist. St. Jerome in Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) vi. 17 {Th}is craft of scripturez..alle presumen [a1425 L.V. presumen to knowe this; L. praesumunt], to-teren, techen, or {th}ey lernen.