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Mostrando entradas con la etiqueta things that make me cringe. Mostrar todas las entradas
Mostrando entradas con la etiqueta things that make me cringe. Mostrar todas las entradas
7 ago 2007

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Articles in the New York Times about underprivileged millionaires in Silicon Value who feel poor because someone else has more money than th...
5 ago 2007

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Sans-serif fonts (except in appropriate occasions) UPDATE: Of course, my blog appears in a sans serif. I meant I hate it in real books!
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24 jul 2007

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I hate that "Can it be a coincidence?" or "It can hardly be a coincidence that.." argument so beloved in "Cultural...
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19 jul 2007

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I basically can't stand earnestness.
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17 jun 2007

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I know this is not very recent, but I didn't have a blog in 1995: When the Academy of American Poets announced it was giving Merwin the...
3 jun 2007

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We think of a colloquial, direct style as easy to achieve, but if that were true then anybody could write as well as Eileen Myles. But this...
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20 feb 2007

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A gerund is not the same thing as a present participle, though the forms happen to be identical in English. A gerund is a noun, not a verb...
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15 feb 2007

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"English is inherently mathematical, she noted, arming a writer with the perfectly precise word to match the meaning, while Turkish is ...
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22 ene 2007

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Never begin an essay or a talk by quoting the dictionary definition of a word, unless you are a high-school student or want to be mistaken ...
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