Posts in the category “writing”
New Words
The Pseudodictionary is full of words (and phrases) that aren’t really words but should be. In the early 80s we used to call these sniglets, a term coined by, I think, Rich Hall of HBO’s Not Necessarily the News. I first found the Psuedodictionary several months ago when there were only a handful of words
The Automobile and the Tiara as Symbols of Class Distinction
“The egalitarianism of modern America represents the essential achievement of the classless society envisioned by Marx.” F. Fukuyama
Innocence v. Experience
This is a take-home test for AML 3124 from the fall of 1995. I might have not exactly addressed the questions as they were presented, but if I had wanted to be a journalist or a writer-for-hire, I never would have majored in English… Read away… Lemme know what ya think, too…
Text is alive.
from 10/02/95, for AML 3124
Misrepresentation as Explanation
from 10/02/95, for AML 3124
Philosophy Exam
This is a take-home exam from a Philosophy class I took in my 2nd year of college.
Philadelphia, Here I Come!
This is a review of a play I had to see for Acting I. I wrote it on February 7, 1995…
Elements of Style
Writing well is easier with help
The English Language
I really get aggravated when people try to argue their way out of what are really meaningless mistakes by saying that the English language is flexible and there aren’t any hard and fast rules and who cares if they’ve spelled something incorrectly because it doesn’t matter as long as you get it and blah, blah,
I took a class in early 20th century American literature while I was a student at the University of Florida. Every essay, book, or article we read struck someone somehow. I got so disgusted by students saying, “What struck me about…” or, “I was struck by…” that I wrote a response paper asking the professor to imagine me striking a student on the head with my Norton Anthology the next time someone said something about being struck. I found a list of world wide web dangerous words today and it reminded me of that class.