tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post4785401164900792572..comments2024-03-27T09:27:33.931+00:00Comments on Idiotic Hat: It's On Page 56Mike C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-24976438962270110042017-04-06T15:09:05.574+01:002017-04-06T15:09:05.574+01:00btw, interesting passage, there, that you quote fr...btw, interesting passage, there, that you quote from Springsteen's "Born To Run" (thanks, Google Books!) -- it's almost a transcription of Joni Mitchell's song "Come In From the Cold" ("Back in 1957..."). I haven't got around to reading it yet (pioneer fan here, first heard in 1973) but it does seem terribly in need of a serious edit!<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-63072835253944520482017-04-06T15:02:03.857+01:002017-04-06T15:02:03.857+01:00Interesting question, mistah charley -- unlike the...Interesting question, mistah charley -- unlike the French Academie, AFAIK there has never been any smoke-filled room of "somebodies, somewhere" sorting this kind of thing out. And yet, they do get sorted (in this case, it *has* to be a committee decision...). Someone, somewhere, must know.<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-59330545372300773242017-04-06T13:59:50.817+01:002017-04-06T13:59:50.817+01:001)Who's job is it to decide such things?
2)&q...1)Who's job is it to decide such things?<br /><br />2)"At the end of the night, by the time Paul and Paula's 'Hey Paula' was spun on the decidedly low-fi sound system, every man and woman alike was throwing themselves onto the dance floor just to feel a body, almost any body, up against theirs."<br /><br />mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-14829997967966891442017-03-31T16:00:30.059+01:002017-03-31T16:00:30.059+01:00Andrew,
It's odd, isn't it, how one comes...Andrew,<br /><br />It's odd, isn't it, how one comes to care about having taken the trouble to cope with inconsistencies and illogicalities, when others haven't? It's like knowing in programming whether an array or a string selection counts from zero or 1... Shouldn't be necessary, but a matter of pride (and, of course, success or failure) to get it right.<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-179984840108697622017-03-31T15:34:33.940+01:002017-03-31T15:34:33.940+01:00I am a huge it's/its pedant, having labored mi...I am a huge it's/its pedant, having labored mightily to master it quite late in life. <br /><br />Thomas Jefferson seems to have used it's as the possessive in letters to Lewis & Clark (well, probably to Lewis, I am too lazy to dig out my copy of the abridged journals). If Jefferson was using it, we may take it as given that it was correct. At the time. <br /><br />Now, though, it is wrong. WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! <br />amolitorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.com