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Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2009Grammarian's blog
I've just been reading my friend Christine Janson's blog about the public (ab)use of English these days, <http://ccjcrotchets.blogspot.com/>, and some of her upcoming articles that I was privileged to read in advance of their posting. I don't normally favor blogspot, but her articles are witty and delightful expositions on English grammar and usage, with the titular crotchety attitude toward those who ignore good grammar and style either through ignorance or indifference. I have no financial interest whatsoever in her blog, and keep Javascript turned off for blogspot whenever I do visit it. I just enjoy her expert writing, and suspect that many denizens of a.u.english will as well.  SignatureLew I am terrified lest I have made in this post the same sorts of errors. > Lew wrote >I've just been reading my friend Christine Janson's blog about the public >(ab)use of English these days, <http://ccjcrotchets.blogspot.com/>, >and some of her upcoming articles that I was privileged to read in advance of >their posting. > >I don't normally favor blogspot, That's a shame. >but her articles are witty and delightful >expositions on English grammar and usage, with the titular crotchety attitude [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >I have no financial interest whatsoever in her blog, and keep Javascript >turned off for blogspot whenever I do visit it. Why? DC -- Lew wrote: >> I don't normally favor blogspot, > That's a shame. Too many people post scams and plagiarized "free e-books" there, then spam Usenet to advertise their crap. This is so prevalent that it has made me cautious of those who use it. I don't see why that's "a shame", though. It's not like I'm missing much. Lew wrote: >> I have no financial interest whatsoever in her blog, and keep Javascript >> turned off for blogspot whenever I do visit it. > Why? Why don't I have a financial interest in Christine's blog? Because it would be silly - it's not a for-pay site and there isn't any money to share. Because it's not really my business to start with. "Damn it, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer!" Because I provide no value to that blog for which I deserve compensation. Why do I keep Javascript turned off at blogspot? Because I can read the blogs just fine without it. SignatureLew > Lew wrote >>Why? > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >Why do I keep Javascript turned off at blogspot? Because I can read the >blogs just fine without it. That's what my 'why' was about. Blogspot is especially prone to people adding javascript routines? Javascript inherently delivers annoying/objectionable/offensive/malicious material? DC, happily bloging on blogspot since 2002 -- Lew wrote: >> Why do I keep Javascript turned off at blogspot? Because I can read the >> blogs just fine without it. > That's what my 'why' was about. Blogspot is especially prone to people adding > javascript [sic] routines? Javascript inherently delivers > annoying/objectionable/offensive/malicious material? You tell me. The burden of proof is on enablement, not disablement. SignatureLew > Lew wrote >Lew wrote: >>>Why do I keep Javascript turned off at blogspot? Because I can read the [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >You tell me. The burden of proof is on enablement, not disablement. I'm sorry, that's far too clever for me. I'd just like to know why you choose to disable Javascript for some sites, and why Blogger sites in particular. DC -- >Lew wrote: >>> Why do I keep Javascript turned off at blogspot? Because I can read the [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >You tell me. The burden of proof is on enablement, not disablement. Proof of what? SignatureSteve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/stevesig.htm Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk >> Lew wrote: >>>> Why do I keep Javascript turned off at blogspot? Because I can read the [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Proof of what? An assertion. Enablement: "One should enable Javascript". Disablement: "One should disable Javascript." It was a bit of poetic license, I admit. What I was saying was that I need an affirmative reason to enable Javascript, whereas Django Cat was asking why I failed to enable it. Lacking a good reason to turn it on, I leave it off. SignatureLew > >> Lew wrote: > >>>> Why do I keep Javascript turned off at blogspot? Because I can [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > failed to enable it. Lacking a good reason to turn it on, I leave it > off. But why make such a big point of it? /W SignatureMy real email address is constructed by swapping the domain with the recipient (local part). > Lew wrote >>Proof of what? > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >whereas Django Cat was asking why I failed to enable it. Lacking a good >reason to turn it on, I leave it off. You must lose a lot of functionality, especially if you need to fill forms in. Do you leave images turned off in your browser as well? I've taken to saving electricity by turning the screen off while I watch TV. I'm thinking about going the whole way and leaving the sound off as well. DC -- >> Lew wrote > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > electricity by turning the screen off while I watch TV. I'm thinking > about going the whole way and leaving the sound off as well. Now on your computer, you can save energy on the LCD by setting your screen to white lettering on a white background. For even more savings, turn off the backlight. SignatureRoland Hutchinson Will play viola da gamba for food. NB mail to my.spamtrap [at] verizon.net is heavily filtered to remove spam. If your message looks like spam I may not see it. > Roland Hutchinson wrote >> Do you leave images turned off in your browser as well? I've taken to >> saving [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >For even more savings, turn off the backlight. I'll take that sound advice, Roland. Have you tried http://www.blackle.com/ ? DC -- > http://www.blackle.com/ Interesting idea, but no matter how I set it, it returns answers (for me) in Dutch. Ordinary Google, I can set to English. Is there some way around this? SignatureBest -- Donna Richoux > > http://www.blackle.com/ > > Interesting idea, but no matter how I set it, it returns answers (for > me) in Dutch. Ordinary Google, I can set to English. Is there some way > around this? Strange. For me it returns mostly English results, Jan >> Roland Hutchinson wrote > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > I'll take that sound advice, Roland. Have you tried > http://www.blackle.com/ ? It only saves energy on CRT displays. How very quaintly second-millennium. SignatureRoland Hutchinson Will play viola da gamba for food. NB mail to my.spamtrap [at] verizon.net is heavily filtered to remove spam. If your message looks like spam I may not see it. >>> Lew wrote: >>>>> Why do I keep Javascript turned off at blogspot? Because I can read the [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >Django Cat was asking why I failed to enable it. Lacking a good reason to >turn it on, I leave it off. OK. I disable Javascript by default, using the "Noscript" add-on for Firefox. Last month was the first full month I had used it, and the notice that I had run out of bandwidth and needed to buy more came on 21 December, whereas previously I used to get it about the 10th-13th of the month. By blocking scripts that run bandwidth-hogging things like videos and podcasts, it has saved me quite a lot of money, but Noscript also lets me turn on Javascript for some sites or pages, partly or fully. I usually have it partly tuned on for Blogspot, so that it blocks video and audio, but lets me see widgets that show who visited the blog etc. SignatureSteve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/stevesig.htm Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk >I've just been reading my friend Christine Janson's blog about the public >(ab)use of English these days, ><http://ccjcrotchets.blogspot.com/>, >and some of her upcoming articles that I was privileged to read in advance of >their posting. Thanks for the tip. >I don't normally favor blogspot, but her articles are witty and delightful >expositions on English grammar and usage, with the titular crotchety attitude >toward those who ignore good grammar and style either through ignorance or >indifference. Blogspot is a public host, so the quality of the content will vary according to the individual bloggers. >I have no financial interest whatsoever in her blog, and keep Javascript >turned off for blogspot whenever I do visit it. I just enjoy her expert >writing, and suspect that many denizens of a.u.english will as well. Blogspot is one of the few sites where I do permit Javascript, though not for everything. I blog video and podcasts everywhere, since they consume bandwidth, and are rarely worth the extra cost. SignatureSteve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/stevesig.htm Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk >Blogspot is one of the few sites where I do permit Javascript, though not for >everything. I blog video and podcasts everywhere, since they consume >bandwidth, and are rarely worth the extra cost. That should read "block" not "blog". SignatureSteve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/stevesig.htm Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk |
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