"In a democracy (‘rule by mob’), those who refuse to learn from history will be the majority and will dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance."
Just re-sampled (not really re-reading it, just skimming a bit and recalling having read it as a lad) a classic Andre Norton and ran across,
“Nick could not tell whether it was singing or music. . . “
*groan* See Inigo Montoya. I do not think those words mean what she thinks they mean. Not all music is singing, but all singing (though not all that is called singing, especially nowadays) is music.*sigh*
I don’t see many SPAM comments, never have, thanks to Askimet, so such things really stand out when they show up in a comment approval queue. Most recent? A comment complimenting my perspicacity that appeared on a page about THE correct way to load a roll of toilet paper that also contained commentary on efficient and “proper” use of same.
(It’s the voices in my head. Really.)
And shirt and tie and cuff links and. . .
And a house with the Art Deco themes so prevalent in the early episodes of the ITV series.
Eh, but of course I don’t want such things enough to expend the effort and $$ to actually make such happen, well, except for maybe the clothes. I could really go there. In my sizes, of course. 🙂
(Enemy action. But of course, efforts to destroy useful distinctions in English are myriad. . . )
Just curious. Anyone know why some folks apparently want to destroy a perfectly good adjective AND a perfectly useful and clear adverb/noun combo by using the adjectives, “backseat” and “backyard” in place of the clearer and more useful “back seat” and “back yard”? (Note: anyone literate and fluent in English both knows the difference and pronounces the adjectives and adjective/noun phrases differently.)
Of course, these are but two of many examples of the attempted extirpation of useful distinctions by subliterate morons (all too often) writing for the Hivemind, their supposedly literate editors and publishers, and those weak minds under the Hivemind’s influence.
Is this sort of thing yet another example of “enemy action” against literacy and simple good sense?
Checked the listings for Thursday. Yep. The best the lineup has to offer is “Battle: Los Angeles”–aliens invade LA. It seems the only likely responses from the rest of the country should that actually recur (OK, the first alien invasion was obviously just from south of the border, I guess this one’s talking about “aliens from another planet) would be,
“How can one tell it’s been invaded by aliens from another planet?” or
“DGARA.”
Fortunately, even if I didn’t have some good books to read, there’s always Amazon Prime. 😉
The sky is falling! The sky is falling! It’s the end of the world!
Bloomberg noting a “causation” that. . . may be just in the “mind” of Bloomberg’s editorial staff:
Microsoft Windows Weak Demand Spurs Worst PC Slump on Record
Correlation does not equal causation, Bloomies. Try to keep that in mind.
How about some breathless hyperbole?
Oh, *yawn* IMO, just as a casual observer with access to the same sets of facts as the authors of the two articles linked, this is just a blip. I fully expect PC sales to stabilize after a while at a very naturally lower level than in recent years as more and more causal “content consumer” users find that tablets and dumb phones work just fine for their casual web browsing, listening to mind-numbing mp3 crap, watching cute cat videos and sending/receiving one-line emails that might as well just be text messages, complete with iPho-nono typos.
Folks who need to do more will still buy and use PCs, and more and more users who were once destined for Assisted Computing Facilities (“Here, dearie, let me make that mouse click for you. . . “) discover that their meager “computing” needs can be met with meager computing devices.
Of course, that could put a dent in the livelihoods of folks who assisted those “meager needs” users in fixing problems they’d caused themselves, but in days of yore buggy whip makers had to find other ways to make a living, too.
This AM while I was trying to get a wee bit more sleep, I heard a shout of dismay from the next room. My Wonder Woman was prepping for her day with about an hour to go before she left for work and. . . the power had gone out (LOTSA storming last night and through the day).
Doing makeup by in the dark just doesn’t cut it, apparently.
I thought she looked lovely by “Kindle Light”. 😉
“As for the protest, I liked it.” Yes, we can see that.
(Although I blurred out the hint of what Putin was giving a thumbs up to, I understand the words written in Cyrillic on the woman’s back might be NSFW.)
STUPID propaganda:
Not sayin’ the title, but really?
. . . there’s enough (plural noun)s on the. . .
Linguistically innumerate. *gagamaggot* And,
“Ah.” He smiled, and even drunk as he was it was the kind of knowing, sarcastic smile that set my teeth on edge. “Jealousy.”
OK, I’ve not necessarily given enough context for the second, but people who use “jealousy” when they mean “envy” really set my teeth on edge. There’s a clear and useful distinction between the two that poorly-read folks seem all to have missed, and now subliterates are forcing their destruction of a useful distinction out of English. I just hate that.
So, as much as I’ve enjoyed the rest of the book to this point, if this sort of thing continues, I may end up putting this one down just because of the annoyance factor.