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Life is sour enough. This is my spoonful of sugar. July 21, 2016. Film Review – Ghostbusters (2016). I approach all summer blockbusters in the same way. I think of them as movies made for fun, meant to be enjoyed for what they are and how they make you feel. They are the cinematic equivalent of pop songs and I love them for it. Examples of summer blockbusters include:. Guardians of the Galaxy. Back to the Future. Fun with time travel! Still cheesy, still fun! But let me back up a little. When I read that...
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writation: Titanic
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Musings on all things language. Subscribe in a reader. Sunday, April 15, 2012. The 19th century into the early 20th was a period when things titanic were in vogue. Thus when the famous British liner of 1912 received its name, it was drawing on nearly a century of fascination with the large, the powerful, the mechanical, and drew from a legacy of Greek mythology that had for decades been applied to modern technological power. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Other good stuff I read.
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writation: Passive Voice Day 2012
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Musings on all things language. Subscribe in a reader. Wednesday, April 25, 2012. Passive Voice Day 2012. This guy Shaun declared April 27th Passive Voice Day. And wrote a post about it using entirely the passive voice. Language Log praised him. For actually using the passive voice correctly throughout. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Simple template. Template images by luoman. Other good stuff I read. Separated by a common language. The Fun of Language and the Language of Fun. Passive Voice Day 2012.
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writation: February 2014
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Musings on all things language. Subscribe in a reader. Saturday, February 1, 2014. Super Bowls, Balls, Boles, and Bulls. Tomorrow is the Super Bowl, so of course I've been wondering not primarily about which team will win, but about the origin of the term itself. (See also my post on Super Tuesday. From 2012). Why is the Super Bowl called the Super Bowl? Whether bull, bowl, bole, or ball, these words, all describing various kind of round, rounded, or swollen things, derive from a Proto Indo-European root...
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writation: Superfine Tuesday
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Musings on all things language. Subscribe in a reader. Tuesday, March 6, 2012. It's SUPER TUESDAY, and I'm wondering about our American obsession with SUPER stuff. Back before I started this blog, I commented on my facebook page on the origins of the term SUPER BOWL, which seems to owe itself to some serendipity, connected to another instance of "super" in American lore, the SUPER BALL:. It's every company's favorite adjective, too, from SuperShuttle to Supercuts to Super Nintendo. The story is something...
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writation: Super Bowls, Balls, Boles, and Bulls
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Musings on all things language. Subscribe in a reader. Saturday, February 1, 2014. Super Bowls, Balls, Boles, and Bulls. Tomorrow is the Super Bowl, so of course I've been wondering not primarily about which team will win, but about the origin of the term itself. (See also my post on Super Tuesday. From 2012). Why is the Super Bowl called the Super Bowl? Whether bull, bowl, bole, or ball, these words, all describing various kind of round, rounded, or swollen things, derive from a Proto Indo-European root...
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writation: April 2012
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Musings on all things language. Subscribe in a reader. Wednesday, April 25, 2012. Passive Voice Day 2012. This guy Shaun declared April 27th Passive Voice Day. And wrote a post about it using entirely the passive voice. Language Log praised him. For actually using the passive voice correctly throughout. Sunday, April 15, 2012. The 19th century into the early 20th was a period when things titanic were in vogue. Friday, April 13, 2012. As my fourth grade teacher was fond of saying (and this was when Ross P...
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Life is sour enough. This is my spoonful of sugar. Tag Archives: ken grimwood. July 26, 2015. I’ve been on a bit of a creative consumption. Kick again, voraciously devouring books. It’s helped that this past week has been perfect patio weather to settle into lunchtime reading, so I thought I’d kick myself back into writing mode and share what’s been on my book list of recent. I desperately wanted to like this book, newly published just a few weeks ago. I loved. Close Encounters of the Third Kind. That wa...
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Life is sour enough. This is my spoonful of sugar. July 26, 2015. I’ve been on a bit of a creative consumption. Kick again, voraciously devouring books. It’s helped that this past week has been perfect patio weather to settle into lunchtime reading, so I thought I’d kick myself back into writing mode and share what’s been on my book list of recent. I desperately wanted to like this book, newly published just a few weeks ago. I loved. A film for which Cline wrote the script). I enjoyed. He not only refere...
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