April 13, 2004
post paschal potholes
Some nice links this morning on some of my favorite blogs:
- Mark over on Languagelog has posted a field guide to prescriptivists. Too funny, if it weren’t too sad. Here are his five motivations usually given as strictures to usage:
- Tradition—how our forebears talked. Innovation is degeneration.
- Fashion—how an admired group talks. Deviation is alienation.
- Universal grammar -- how one ought ideally to talk. Inconsistency is illogical.
- Standards—how we should agree to talk. Variation confuses communication.
- Revelation—how God taught us to talk. Alteration is transgression.
- C R Culver over at Nephelokkugia has started posting his LaTeX for Classicists. (I hope he gives the TeXy secret for putting accents over macrons for Sanskrit transliterations of Vedic texts.)
- Mr BaliHai of Eye of the Goof has posted a link to a completely digitized 1961 comic called This Godless Communism.
- Ben Boyd of Zonkbonk sent a link to a US presidential candidate I hadn’t heard of, Roy Moore. Nice to see that the religious right is upset with their former darling.
I can only assume that the unholy degeneration of the English language was precipitated by godless communism and linguistics.
Posted by jim at April 13, 2004 08:11 AM
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It's the same Roy Moore that put up the ten commandments statue in the Alabama State Court, lost his judicial appointment, and tried to argue his case to the Supreme Court (which declined). My housemate Josh had the unfortunate task of arguing for Moore's case in his law school's moot court course.