This thread!
THE WESTERNERS is out in 3 1/2 weeks, and I will be posting about it quite a lot between now and then.
Vigorous self-promotion is expected now, and is pretty much a part-time job for all nonfiction authors closing in on pub day.
So please like and repost, and help spread the word! 🐝
I've worked with some of these urchins for thirty years.
franchement j'ai cru voir une photo de mon rayon...
Ce que les dictionnaires (et le discours sur la langue en général) révèlent de nous comme société... Bonne lecture!
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Almost 500 years ago, a group of English writers decided Latin and French loanwords were corrupting the language. They wanted to replace them all with "pure English" alternatives.
If they'd won, Hamlet would have wondered "To be or not to be, that is the asking."
It’s actually FEWER Misérables
I reviewed a history of plagiarism for History Today: www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...
Never expected "how to pronounce biopic" to become just as evergreen an argument, with partisans fiercely dug in on both sides, as "how to pronounce GIF."
JOB ALERT 📜📚
Librarian & executive director of Yale’s Lewis Walpole Library (Farmington, CT)
•Research center for 18th-century Britain
•You’d report to the fabulous Michelle Light
careers.yale.edu/us/en/job/13...
A Thing We Are, Or At Least I Am, Not Relitigating Today.
Or Tomorrow.
The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie.
Same here. I thought it was Mercer finding evocative syllables but not a real meaning of a real word!
precisely!!
OED covers it beautifully. I'm a bit surprised that none of the Merriam Unabridged editions seem to have recorded this.
I had no idea that Johnny Mercer was reviving old-fashioned slang with his "your huckleberry friend" line in "Moon River."
(The song won an Oscar in 1962.)
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Will they have to perform a semicolonoscopy?
Hmmm. The young Proust spent a few years translating Ruskin, despite not being able to read English. His mother and a friend made word-for-word translations and he then turned it into beautiful French prose. MumGPT.
You can hear the love Harry James had for Louis on his pealing rendition. I bet he learned this from the record as a teenager.
(Buddy Rich on drums!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKqc...
Quebec French has a nice monosyllable for this that is used in nearly all contexts.
Louis Armstrong's 1957 remake of "Cornet Chop Suey" is also a thrilling record:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMba...
Some historians write so beautifully. Others…
my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels
An amazing tribute version by Wynton Marsalis:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ0r...
This week is the centennial of a significant recording date in the history of jazz, "Cornet Chop Suey" & "Heebie Jeebies."
There are bigger questions right now, but for me, I can't decide whether to call it:
the CORNET CHOP SUNIVERSARY
or
the HEEBIETENNIAL
youtu.be/UX6llYLb_p0?...
Dating app called Whinge where people match based on what pet peeves they have in common.
