tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post3439101681271089367..comments2024-03-29T11:29:58.276+09:00Comments on BigHominid's Hairy Chasms: to-do listKevin Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-21912533063250505242015-03-13T22:46:50.044+09:002015-03-13T22:46:50.044+09:00I'd add the best "Dune" film adaptat...I'd add the best "Dune" film adaptation you've never seen, yet have seen if you've watched "Alien," "Blade Runner," and a slew of other cutting edge films thanks to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WWu1kclNDA" rel="nofollow">"Jodorowsky's Dune."</a>John from Daejeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08431973044799010218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-19182321373351409112015-03-13T12:45:30.311+09:002015-03-13T12:45:30.311+09:00No defending infinitives, split or otherwise; that...No defending infinitives, split or otherwise; that battle has been lost since the 1960s. I'm not a fan of pedantic hypercorrection (e.g., the pious myths that "you can't end a sentence with a preposition" or "you can't begin a sentence with a coordinating conjunction"—blindly quoted by idiots who should know better), but I'm also not a fan of attempts at looking cool and trendy by saying, "Hey, 'between you and I' is perfectly legit!"—<a href="http://seongdo.blogspot.kr/2012/02/between-you-and-i.html" rel="nofollow">as Pinker has done</a>. OK, granted, maybe Pinker isn't saying that to appear cool and trendy, but he's obviously trying to wave his descriptivist street cred in my face, and I call bullshit on Pinker's "between you and I" and other such locutions that he sees himself as rescuing from the evil clutches of the grammar pedants.<br /><br />More soon.Kevin Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-61334919626803696112015-03-13T11:41:32.014+09:002015-03-13T11:41:32.014+09:00What have you got against Steven Pinker?
I await ...What have you got against Steven Pinker?<br /><br />I await this one eagerly, and request that it is bumped up the queue.<br /><br />You're not going to try and defend the unsplit infinitive, are you?Roryhttp://eastedit.com.aunoreply@blogger.com