vendredi, août 20, 2004
Eats-Blogs-Leaves
something on grammatical errors and laxness in blogs
newyorker.com - errors in Eats, Shoots and Leaves
this quoted passage is not reflective of the content of the article, but an interesting description which i feel applies to myself. the article does a great criticism of the book though.
"Writers, by nature, tend to be people in whom l’esprit de l’escalier is a recurrent experience: they are always thinking of the perfect riposte after the moment for saying it has passed. So they take a few years longer and put it in print. Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right—so that what they write sounds completely unrehearsed."
apostrophe protection society
some nonsense
Eats-Blogs-Leaves
article: Eats-Blogs-Leaves
something on grammatical errors and laxness in blogs
newyorker.com - errors in Eats, Shoots and Leaves
this quoted passage is not reflective of the content of the article, but an interesting description which i feel applies to myself. the article does a great criticism of the book though.
"Writers, by nature, tend to be people in whom l’esprit de l’escalier is a recurrent experience: they are always thinking of the perfect riposte after the moment for saying it has passed. So they take a few years longer and put it in print. Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right—so that what they write sounds completely unrehearsed."
apostrophe protection society
some nonsense
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