Thursday, January 12, 2006

feedback

Thanks to the many who wrote responding to my posts.

At the risk of being too interesting, let me explain some of my practices.

I am a poor speller (though an exceptional grammarian and "syntactician," if I may coin a new term). My usual practice in formal writing is to edit, etc., but I fear that would be too interesting an activity for me to take up. Therefore, spelling here will be less than exact, though I might argue that such variations from standard writing practices may be viewed as a subtle form of subversion -- a sly reminder to you all that standards of grammar, spelling, usage, etc. are the product of what many see as the disciplinary tyrrany of enlightenment rationalism over the explosive free play of the letter. Perhaps that's a Derridean/Barthesian version of, "who carez if'n I kaint spelll!?".

Also, I'm trying to be uninteresting because in reality I'm a deeply fascinating person. My links will be interesting, revealing the fascinating elements that mix to compose my true character, a paradoxical blend of charisma and depth, of crassness and sensitivity, of erudition and willful ignorance, or something.

To more important and less interesting matters, I'm planning to eat today. My jacket's comfortable but missing a sleeve button. I should clean my glasses more often.

3 Comments:

Blogger Sarah Goss said...

I am bothered by the typo in the first line of your post: you wrote "to the may" instead of "to the many."

An 18th-century grammatical tyrant

3:57 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I hate to break it to you, but "syntactician" is not a new phrase, bro. Ask any linguist.

8:57 AM  
Blogger Mark Meritt said...

Sam,

Really?! Actually that pleases me more. It means I intuitively tapped into your discipline's discourse with no formal transition. I rule!

10:23 AM  

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