BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. There are many things I’d like to talk about today. There is Yule Heibel’s post on Foucault and self-exposure, and Mike Golby’s and alembic responses. Yule wrote: Understand this: whatever is translated into discourse is instrumentalised as social control. It is not the case that chatter about your sexuality or your neuroses or your deepest darkest […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Serious questions about the integrity of Quizilla have been raised in my comments in regards to the most recent quiz, How grammatically sound are you? Jonathon Delacour put forth: Though I suspect the reason Quizilla didn’t post the correct answers is to ensure that no-one ranks below Grammar Master. Can anyone disprove […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Today it got close to 80 degrees (it’s still 70, at 9pm at night), and this is only the beginning of April. So many plants blooming that the air is perpetually perfumed. I took the grammar test. I hate to break it to the neighborhood but… You are a GRAMMAR GOD! If your mission […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Unmute was kind enough to point out the fact that the term “backchannel” is already a word used by linguists to designate the signals listeners give to a speaker to reaffirm that they’re still listening, and still engaged. According to unmute: What I find striking, from a language perspective, is that the […]
I have had a strong writer’s block this last month, which has manifested itself as writing to the weblog. As contrary as this seems, what this means is that instead of focusing on the writing I need to do to make a living, I’ve been puttering around here. Unless ya’ll decide to chip in and […]