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Discussion Groups / English Usage / November 2006Full circle?
When the telephone became commonplace, people bewailed the passing of the art of letter-writing. Now that writing has returned in the of e-mail, the complaint is that people don't talk any more! David Try that again ... > When the telephone became commonplace, people bewailed the passing of the > art of letter-writing. Now that writing has returned in the form of > e-mail, the complaint is that people don't talk any more! > > David On 19 Nov 2006, David wrote > Try that again ... > >> When the telephone became commonplace, people bewailed the >> passing of the art of letter-writing. Now that writing has >> returned in the form of e-mail, the complaint is that people >> don't talk any more! Yup; it's always amusing to watch... It was fun when the "kids-just-don't-read-these-days" crowd went through terrible contortions when they saw 12-year-old kids reading 600-page, unillustrated novels: they simply *had* to show that, in terms of reading, Harry Potter just *didn't count*.  SignatureCheers, Harvey Canadian and British English, indiscriminately mixed For e-mail, change harvey.news to harvey.van > On 19 Nov 2006, David wrote > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > 600-page, unillustrated novels: they simply *had* to show that, in > terms of reading, Harry Potter just *didn't count*. Any kid that doesn't go through phases is not a kid. If one of those phases is reading, so much the better (but you'll normally find that the reading is concentrated on a genre or on series of books). As long as kids realise that the written word can transport them further than the TV screen, who cares about the details? On 19 Nov 2006, Mark Wallace wrote >> On 19 Nov 2006, David wrote >> [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > As long as kids realise that the written word can transport them > further than the TV screen, who cares about the details? Couldn't agree more, but I recall reading a certain amount of pooh- poohing about how genre novels sort of don't count...probably (or undoubtedly) because kids enjoy reading them. SignatureCheers, Harvey Canadian and British English, indiscriminately mixed For e-mail, change harvey.news to harvey.van > On 19 Nov 2006, Mark Wallace wrote > [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > poohing about how genre novels sort of don't count...probably (or > undoubtedly) because kids enjoy reading them. Pooh-poohed, no doubt, by people who read genres or series other than those of their victims. I dare say Winnie the Pooh and The Wind in the Willows were pooh-poohed by Alice aficionados. > I dare say Winnie the Pooh and The Wind in the Willows were pooh-poohed > by Alice aficionados. i hate winnie the pooh, and his friends. especially piglet. i'd love to stomp piglet to death. >> I dare say Winnie the Pooh and The Wind in the Willows were pooh-poohed >> by Alice aficionados. > > i hate winnie the pooh, and his friends. especially piglet. i'd love to > stomp piglet to death. <<Gasp>> SignatureYours, Dan S. Reporting to you from South Bend -The first step to beating an addiction is to admit that you believe in addictions. > >> I dare say Winnie the Pooh and The Wind in the Willows were pooh-poohed > >> by Alice aficionados. > > > > i hate winnie the pooh, and his friends. especially piglet. i'd love to > > stomp piglet to death. when i was a kid back in the 60s i went to a saturday matinee. it was the jungle book as the main feature {a great flick} "i want thoae bear necessaties, oh those bear nesessities" and winnie the pooh and the honey tree. i instantly hated him. eeyore, and especially piglet. 40 years later i'm still scarred by it. i hate winnie the pooh, must kill piglet , must kill piglet MUST KILL PIGLET!!!! DIE DIE DIE WIMPY BEAR AND PIG DIE DIE MUST KILL >>>> I dare say Winnie the Pooh and The Wind in the Willows were pooh-poohed >>>> by Alice aficionados. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > i hate winnie the pooh, must kill piglet , must kill piglet MUST KILL > PIGLET!!!! DIE DIE DIE WIMPY BEAR AND PIG DIE DIE MUST KILL WHOA! Now just HOLD YOUR BLOODY HORSES, there! The Waldo Drabney version of Winnie the Pooh is one of the great illiterary* travesties of the 20th century. Do not confuse it with the real thing! Hey, I think I've invented a word there that's worth keeping! >> I dare say Winnie the Pooh and The Wind in the Willows were pooh-poohed >> by Alice aficionados. > > i hate winnie the pooh, and his friends. especially piglet. i'd love to >stomp piglet to death. We have a soft toy of Piglet which I regularly punch, hang upside down, etc. Oho! >> I dare say Winnie the Pooh and The Wind in the Willows were pooh-poohed >> by Alice aficionados. > > i hate winnie the pooh, and his friends. especially piglet. i'd love to > stomp piglet to death. Hmm. I think your posting needed sound effects, to give it that extra punch. On 20 Nov 2006, Mark Wallace wrote >>> I dare say Winnie the Pooh and The Wind in the Willows were >>> pooh-poohed by Alice aficionados. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Hmm. I think your posting needed sound effects, to give it that > extra punch. 'Cause that's what Raymonds do best! SignatureCheers, Harvey Canadian and British English, indiscriminately mixed For e-mail, change harvey.news to harvey.van > On 20 Nov 2006, Mark Wallace wrote > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > 'Cause that's what Raymonds do best! Hey, is that you, Harvey? I didn't twig to the HVS thing (which sounds like a furniture-removals company). But I'm a believer that only haycorns need to be stomped on. ... And heffalumps, of course, but that's a little trickier. On 20 Nov 2006, Mark Wallace wrote >> On 20 Nov 2006, Mark Wallace wrote >> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Hey, is that you, Harvey? I didn't twig to the HVS thing (which > sounds like a furniture-removals company). Yeah; old story now, but a number of regulars in AEU and AUE substituted initials for actual names (Laura's now 'LFS') when we realised just how many websites leech these posts and present them as contributions to their "bulletin boards". I was entirely happy for a Google search on my name to turn up my posts to AEU/AUE, but I really don't like the search results suggesting that somebody with my name is contributing to....I dunno...."wurdz-iz-funnie.com" or something like that. SignatureCheers, Harvey Canadian and British English, indiscriminately mixed For e-mail, change harvey.news to harvey.van > On 20 Nov 2006, Mark Wallace wrote > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > realised just how many websites leech these posts and present them > as contributions to their "bulletin boards". Ha! As if kids nowadays even know what a bulletin board is! > I was entirely happy for a Google search on my name to turn up my > posts to AEU/AUE, but I really don't like the search results > suggesting that somebody with my name is contributing to....I > dunno...."wurdz-iz-funnie.com" or something like that. Hmm. OTOH, I can see that such a noble web-sitery endeavour would be appropriate to a lot of the drivel that's served up here. Nice to "see" you again, though. We'll have to find something to go tooth-and-claw at. On 20 Nov 2006, Mark Wallace wrote >> On 20 Nov 2006, Mark Wallace wrote >> [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > Nice to "see" you again, though. We'll have to find something > to go tooth-and-claw at. We'll have to see who bites first..... SignatureCheers, Harvey Canadian and British English, indiscriminately mixed For e-mail, change harvey.news to harvey.van > On 20 Nov 2006, Mark Wallace wrote > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > We'll have to see who bites first..... I imagine it would be the one with the tooth; it's kinda awkward, biting with a claw. |
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