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Dec. 31st, 2006 11:31 pmSo I've survived another year, alive
If not intact. I got a new device.
I read a hundred books and maybe more.
I wrote a song; the bands played on and on.
I gained three pounds. Why should an increase in diameter
Lead me to post in iambic pentameter?
It's probably at least partly due to currently reading John McWhorter's Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation Of Language And Music And Why We Should, Like, Care, in which he decries the decline of oratory and poetry and laments the dumbing down of written American English. A certain amount of whining, and definitely preaching to the choir, since he uses a vocabulary fairly far beyond the average "talking" vocabulary of most Americans.
Happy New Year, y'all!
If not intact. I got a new device.
I read a hundred books and maybe more.
I wrote a song; the bands played on and on.
I gained three pounds. Why should an increase in diameter
Lead me to post in iambic pentameter?
It's probably at least partly due to currently reading John McWhorter's Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation Of Language And Music And Why We Should, Like, Care, in which he decries the decline of oratory and poetry and laments the dumbing down of written American English. A certain amount of whining, and definitely preaching to the choir, since he uses a vocabulary fairly far beyond the average "talking" vocabulary of most Americans.
