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Randomness for 12/18

  • Dec. 18th, 2012 at 6:56 AM
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1) The largest iceberg break-up ever filmed. Video. Pretty amazing.

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13 Little-Known Punctuation Marks We Should Be Using.

3)

10 episodes that show how Buffy The Vampire Slayer blew up genre TV.

4) The Best/Worst Media Errors and Corrections in 2012. Mostly English language, of course.

5) The Five Most Disruptive Technologies of 2012.

6) Stephen King takes writing questions from writing students. Video.

7) Winning photos from this year’s Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition

Mirrored from Twenty Palaces. You can comment here or there.

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comrade_cat
Dec. 19th, 2012 07:55 am (UTC)
Thank you for the 2012 Media Errors report. It is truly wonderful.
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burger_eater
Dec. 19th, 2012 05:56 pm (UTC)
Thanks! I liked that one, too. (So many!)
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janny26
Dec. 19th, 2012 02:11 pm (UTC)
All those punctuation marks look interesting, but I can see why we don't use them nowadays. I mean you can usually tell if the tone of the sentence is sarcastic, rhetoric or whatever from the context, without the need of any mark. And interrobang sounds freakin hilarious.
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burger_eater
Dec. 19th, 2012 06:14 pm (UTC)
I once had an editor ruthless deny my intention to include "?!" at the end of a sentence with "No Interrobangs!"

Which is sad, because it makes sense to have one, but I understand why people don't want it.

There's strong resistance to the idea that we should state our intentions baldly ("This is sarcasm!" "I am certain!") rather than letting context and implication guide our meaning. It feels like dumbing down our discourse. Me, I understand that it's inelegant (and does anyone want to see "authority" marks or whatever in online evolution arguments?) but think how many dumb people it would help.
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