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While I tend to whinge at that kind of writing, I at the same time remind myself that Stephen Fry had a beauitful essay about how to use language, and how we ca
by Arkhaine_kupo 4y ago
While I tend to whinge at that kind of writing, I at the same time remind myself that Stephen Fry had a beauitful essay about how to use language, and how we can be wildly innovative with it.
At the end of the day Shakespeare was the first to table a meeting and that must have sounded novel and too out there back then. Not everything will age well, but I would rather we try new things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY
- bin_bash 4y agoI have no problem with experimentation of language. My issue is putting such colloquial writing into a major newspaper article.
- martinflack 4y agoAnd if they kept it, at least they could punch the "yes" with a preceding m-dash. Punctuation fluency is dropping too!
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- bsedlm 4y ago> I would rather we try new things. This is contingent on the capacity of a society to weather any bad outcomes from the new things. which given as they new, their outcomes are unknown. I'm trying to get to how freedom is related to some kind of background wealth. If people are (or feel?) wealthy, they're willing to accept risky behavior. Using a example: "oh, there they go the village idiots burning down a barn..." --"oh well, at least there's still enough of everything for winter, no problem." In contrast with: "[...] now we're fucked. time to ration our provisions". Enter global warming; and with it the rise of autocracies, tyrannies, and so on.