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7755. uzmakk - 2/13/2005 8:58:41 PM Btw, McWhorter is a linguist and his book is an analysis of what is happening to our language. No crying or wringing of hands, just a call to pay attention.
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Monday, February 14 at 6:30pm ET -- C-Span
David M. Levy, professor at the Information School of the University of Washington Levy is the author of "Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age," and he will discuss the shift of the experience of reading from the fixed page to movable electrons and the effect that has had on language.
This is one of a series of lectures. I caught a good bit of the previous lecture before I left the house a Monday or two ago and intend to watch the rest of the series. Y'all can ask questions via email.
Digital Future lecture series
7756. arkymalarky - 2/13/2005 9:19:01 PM I've heard McWhorter on TV a couple of times and was as impressed with him as I've been with anyone new that I've seen interviewed in a long time. 7757. judithathome - 2/13/2005 11:23:06 PM I feel vindicated by my heading on the link to the story about Miller's death on the News thread! And by David Mamet, no less. ;-) 7758. arkymalarky - 2/14/2005 12:24:58 AM That's what Dad always quoted from that play, too, and it always stood out for me, but I never knew if it would have had I not heard it from Dad long before I'd ever read it. I assume, the way I see the line, that I would have. 7759. judithathome - 2/14/2005 12:39:43 AM If you'd heard it in the TV movie (with Lee J Cobb) or the theatrical movie (with Fredric March) when his wife said it, you'd have never forgotten. Mildred Dunnock played Linda Loman in both productions. 7760. wonkers2 - 2/14/2005 2:16:18 AM Very good, Judith. I didn't pick up on it. 7761. judithathome - 2/14/2005 4:56:56 PM Well, don't feel bad, no one else did, either....I had to pat myself on the back for it, after all. ;-) 7762. wonkers2 - 2/14/2005 5:11:34 PM "On Bullshit" by Harry G. Frankfurt, Professor Emeritus of Moral Philosophy, Princeton Here. 7763. wonkers2 - 2/14/2005 5:16:57 PM Frankfort: "The bull artist, on the other hand, cares nothing for truth or falsehood. The only thing that matters is 'getting away with what he says.' An advertiser or a politician or talk show host given to [bull]does not reject the authority of the truth as the liar does, and oppose himself to it, he pays no attention to it at all."
Are Bush-Cheney liars or merely bullshitters? 7764. Magoseph - 2/15/2005 2:52:29 PM Uz, thank you for the C-Span link: "Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age". 7765. wonkers2 - 2/19/2005 3:24:50 PM The Droogs are back, on stage this time. Here. 7766. wabbit - 4/15/2005 3:19:32 PM How cool is this -- the Smithsonian Institution has just gone online with the ethnographic answer to iTunes: smithsonianglobalsound.org, with museum-quality annotation and royalties paid to musicians. I've added a link in the butter bar. 7767. Magoseph - 4/28/2005 12:13:58 PM Culture and our President...
May 2005 issue
Small Favors Molly Ivins
The Whim of a Hat
Hey, the sun is shining, the bluebonnets are out, our big music festival, South by Southwest, rocked, and the puppy wants to play. You expect me to write about Terri Schiavo, Iraq, and Paul ("There is no history of ethnic strife in Iraq") Wolfowitz?
Instead, let us celebrate spring with a roundup of the President's verbal gaffes, boners, grammatical errors, and immortal contributions to logic. Remember, this is a contest between George Bush père and George Bush fils, with the old man still well ahead at this point, though I think you will agree, after reading the latest, that our boy is gaining on him.
These are, as always, taken straight from life and from W.'s mouth.
First of all, there's the ongoing situation in Iraq, where, as he put it, "it is a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life." Our enemies in Iraq are very resourceful, he adds. "They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people and neither do we," says the Prez.
Don't worry, the President understands the financial implications of Iraq. He said, "I want to remind you all that in order to fight and win the war, it requires an expenditure of money that is commiserate with keeping a promise to our troops."
Then there was Bush's spluttering in the first debate: "In Iraq, no doubt about it, it's tough. It's hard work. It's incredibly hard."
If ever there was a man who understood hard work, it is our President. He was fully prepared for it by his time as governor of Texas. His former chief of staff, Clay Johnson, stated that in those days, Bush's workweek consisted of "two hard half-days" broken only by his two-hour midday break. We can tell that Bush still misses being governor because he said: "One of the most meaningful things that's happened to me since I've been the President, governor--the governor--President. Oops. Ex-governor."
On general strategery, the President said, "The best way to find these terrorists who hide in holes is to get people coming forward to describe the location of the holes, is to give clues and data." And he uttered these profound words of wisdom: "Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat."
He added, curiously, "Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction."
Bush is not into process. "Oftentimes, we live in a processed world--you know, people focus on the process and not the results."
His focus on results led to this doozie on slavery: "It's very interesting when you think about it, the slaves who left there to go to America, because their steadfast and their religion and their belief in freedom helped change America."
Last year was a period of high stress for George W., who once again had to struggle with the education issue, observing that the "illiteracy level of our children are appalling."
President Bush also informed us during the campaign that God speaks through him. This disappointed many who thought the Almighty knew how to pronounce the word "nuclear."
Bush himself has noted, "I'm also not very analytical. You know, I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things." But still, he is capable of deep self-awareness, as when he observed, "I am the master of low expectations."
End of recap. You must admit "kill at the whim of a hat" is almost worth the price of admission. Just try to remember, folks, this is historic times.
7768. wonkers2 - 5/8/2005 1:08:28 PM Heretofor whimsical Colombian painter of fat people, Fernando Botero, turns serious over Abu Ghraib torture. Here. 7769. wabbit - 5/9/2005 2:18:30 AM Pump it up! 7770. wonkers2 - 5/9/2005 4:09:14 PM Is Mass Culture Dumbing us Down or Smartening Us Up? The answer here. 7771. jexster - 5/14/2005 6:08:03 PM La Pistache a Tante Nana - mp3
Huge selection of cajun music mp3's free here 7772. jexster - 5/14/2005 6:11:47 PM E-OU CE QUE T'ES PARTI? WHERE ARE YOU GOING?
What is Cajun French?
French Dept Louisiana State Univ. 7773. jexster - 5/14/2005 6:42:03 PM Mon petit garçon a plus des crises
Ma vieille a plus des rhumatismes
Sont plus malades at all at all
Depuis ils ont pris le Hadacol
Sois garanti tu prends quelque dose
Tes yeux sont clairs, tes joues sont roses,
Prends quelques bouteilles et je te promets
Tu vas jongler pour courtiser
J’ai fait serment dessus la Bible
Me sentir mieux c’est pas possible
Moi qui te dis je peux remercier
Le Hadacol à Nonc Dudley
Si t’as des douleurs mais tout partout,
Dans tes jambes et dans ton cou,
Si t’as besoin des vitamins
Le Hadacol peut le mettre within
Si les docteurs t’ont décompté
Y a une sauce pour t’as cassé,
Y a une chance pour ta santé,
Le Hadacol peut te le donner
Viens faire serment dessus la Bible
Te sentir mieux c’est pas possible
Moi qui dis qui a remercié
Le Hadacol à Nonc Dudley
"Pendant longtemps j’ai miséré
Sur juste du lait, du pain grillé,
Asteur c'est bien je me porte du suif,"
Say Nonc Ignace a L'Anse la Butte
"J’ai pris le tonique à Nonc Dudley
C'est ça ca pris pour m’engraisser,
Asteur ma vieille me trouve si mieux
Elle me prend pareil qu’un amoureux."
J’ai fait le serment dessus la Bible
De me sentir mieux c’est pas possible
Moi qui dis je peux remercier
Le Hadacol à Nonc Dudley
Valse de Hadacol 7774. jexster - 5/14/2005 6:56:44 PM And the ever-populaire Jolie Blon
Jolie blonde, regardez donc quoi t'as fait,
Tu m'as quitte pour t'en aller,
Pour T'en aller avec un autre, oui, que moi,
Quel espoir et quel avenir, mais, moi, je vais avoir?
Jolie blonde, tu m'as laisse, moi tout seul,
Pour t'en aller chez ta famille.
Si t'aurais pas ecoute tos les conseils de les autres
tu serait ici-t-avec moi aujourd 'hui
Jolie blonde, tu croyais il y avait just toi,
Il y a pas just toi dans le pays pour moi aimer.
Je peux trouver just une autre jolie blonde,
Bon Dieu sait, moi, j'ai un tas.
In English
Pretty blond, look at what you've done,
You left me to go away,
to go away with another, yes, than me,
What hope and what future am I going to have?
Pretty blond, you've left me all alone
To go back to your family.
If you had not listened to all the advice of the others
You would be here with me today.
Pretty blond, you thought there as just you,
There is not just you in the land to love me.
I can find another pretty blond,
Good God knows, I have a lot.
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