In the last – oh – maybe decade or so, there’ve been a lot of people fah-reeeking out about what the internet is doing to literacy. Me? I don’t really get why they’ve so got their shorts in a knot over this (and what does that actually mean, “shorts in a knot?”). Seems to me [...]
The Perfect Thing
Whenever we watch a movie or talk about a book, G gets this wistful look and complains that people in stories always know exactly what to say. I’ve stopped pointing out that this may be due to the fact that good published dialogue is put together word by word by professional dramatists who write it [...]