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<span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Washington bureau chief and Lexington columnist of The Economist. Ex-corr in Beijing, Brussels, London, Sydney. So thoughts on Asia-Pacific, EU, UK too</span>k. riggs gardnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130858666393797513.post-90171141340809072302015-11-18T01:36:00.001-05:002015-11-18T02:11:36.015-05:00Does this matter?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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k. riggs gardnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130858666393797513.post-78303963748464560012015-11-11T16:43:00.000-05:002015-11-12T00:44:21.289-05:00The Beginning of Sound<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">Toyplayer chose the "Website" category i</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">n 2012 </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">to</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">present his topic, </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(254, 119, 147); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Silent to Sound: How Sound Revolutionized the Movie-Going Experience</i></span><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, </strong><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">in the National History Day competition in Washington, D.C.</span></span></span></span><br />
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Last weekend the arch-nemesis Johnson presumably featured my comment (below) on account of his "reason to rely" verbiage on <a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2011/03/language_writing" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">On Language: switched off</span></a><b>, </b>a<b style="color: #0b5394;"> </b>post of several years ago concerning the <i>New York Times </i>magazine's new editor Hugo Lindgren's mistake to cut the "On Language" column, which, before being taken up by a linguist named Ben Zimmer, was authored by the late, great William Safire.<br />
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Johnson, in dismay, directed his readers to "like" the <a href="http://keep%20%22on%20language%22%20in%20the%20new%20york%20times/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Keep "On Language" in the New York Times</span></b></a> Facebook page started by irate NYT readers to convince Hugo Lindgren to keep "On Language" in the NYT.<br />
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Sadly, I didn't like the Facebook page itself but, instead, liked Johnson's post on the page. In the end it couldn't be said that the 866 page-likers were of enough influence to sway the direction that Hugo Lindgren was to take the magazine despite Johnson's best effort.<br />
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To this day, though, that Facebook page is still in existence; the last entry, dated November 11, 2013, is titled simply: <b>The end of the Lindgren era</b>, with a link to a POLITICO media entry.<br />
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After all these years (damn you Hugo Lindgren!) Johnson still finds reason to rely on Ben Zimmer's "On Language" blog.<br />
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But let’s not be misleading. You’ve cited Michael Swan’s quote out of context. <b>He acknowledged in 2010 the need to teach important formulaic expressions<strike>, just </strike>without forethought to the age of big data.</b><br />
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<b>He acknowledged in 2010 the need to teach important formulaic expressions without forethought to the age of big data. </b>[strike: <strike>(,) just</strike>]<br />
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There is normally a red ribbon tied to a featured comment which I couldn't grab in my copy and paste. The graphic inspiration for his post was a picture of Lego construction workers.<br />
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k. riggs gardnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130858666393797513.post-75066086482331652002015-08-09T12:06:00.000-04:002015-08-09T12:06:13.378-04:00Vigorously omitted words<div class="MsoNormal">
As a long-time reader of economist.com, I took great
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Prospero blog. The subject was brevity. The same brevity found in Cornell
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As I know, the reason I took interest in Johnson’s post,
<b><a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2015/08/johnson-style" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Briefly</span></a>,</b> is this blog’s post, <a href="http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-case-for-brevity.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #990000;">The Case for Brevity</span></b></a>, written exactly one year (less one day) ago. Johnson explained that he had begun a new editing job and caged
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Which further reminded me that I had re-admitted to the
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degree shortly before “Subject – Verb – Object” was my reply to Strunk’s
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<i>Or is it? Structuring
sentences into 140 characters might be teaching young writers one of the most
cherished virtues among those who deal professionally with writing: brevity.
Johnson has just changed jobs, from reporting to editing. Before, copy went from
my hands to another's, and it was their job to query, reshape and trim
it—difficult work that inevitably made it better. Now I am on the other end of
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<i>Editing for print
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meeting a space-limit tightly defined by the size of a page. Online, when an
editor asks for 650 words and a writer sends 1,100, the result is a groan. When this happens in print with a deadline
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k. riggs gardnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130858666393797513.post-19110310185912374762015-08-04T18:57:00.000-04:002015-08-04T18:57:32.359-04:00August dogs<span style="font-size: large;">Obviously not a snapshot with a smartphone but a tie-in with Elliott Erwitt at Flipped Again.</span><br />
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k. riggs gardnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130858666393797513.post-57139742953562233362014-08-10T21:05:00.000-04:002014-08-10T21:05:29.581-04:00The case for brevityThe Great War began in Europe 100 years ago this month. America did not enter World War I until April 1917. At its close, E.B. White was a student at Cornell University. He took an English course in 1919 with William Strunk, Jr. A little book penned by the professor named <i>The Elements of Style </i>was the course text<i>.</i><br />
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Charles Beaumont wrote a number of memorable Twilight Zone episodes, among them "Long Live Walter Jameson" and "Queen of the Nile." The immortality theme is engaged in both. I've read elsewhere that Long Live... is the obvious antecedent to a Queen rehash, but I don't think it's uncommon for a writer to employ a recurring topic. I've pulled both episodes to compare in a subsequent post.<br />
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Walter Jameson is a popular history professor with a seemingly first-hand knowledge of the Civil War. As the story opens, an elder professor is sitting in on his lecture. After class the professor asks to speak with Jameson and invites him to dinner that evening. It is unclear how well these two know each other beyond a brief reference to Susannah. <br />
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Further, at the lecture Jameson had read intimately from a Civil War officer's diary. Intrigued, Kittredge references a book of Mathew Brady Civil War photographs, not really expecting to find anything. But there was Jameson's likeness, with the same mole on his chin, and even pinky ring on his finger!</div>
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Jameson ultimately reveals himself to be old enough to know Plato. An alchemist imparted him with agelessness, but, not imperviousness to injury. Kittredge is amazed he survived all these years without a scratch. He begs him to share the secret of immortality but Jameson doesn't know how. Besides, would he want to be a 70-year-old man for an eternity? Jameson had tried to kill himself many times over the years but was too cowardly to do so.<br />
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A doll is sent from India to <strike>British</strike> (unnecessary qualifier) Colonel Masters. When he returns home after his long tour of duty, his young niece excitedly shows him a dreadful doll. When confronted alone, the housekeeper explains she thought he had sent the doll but that there was "something terribly evil" about it.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.399999618530273px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The colonel knows he will die soon. He instructs the housekeeper to <strike>get</strike> retrieve from his dresser a sealed envelope <strike>from his dresser addressed to an Indian man </strike></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 23.399999618530273px;">addressed to an Indian man</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 23.399999618530273px;">. "See that it's delivered to him immediately and tell him the thing has happened. He will know what to do."</span><br />
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