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| In procrastination I observed this yesterday and was prompted to take a photo for no particular reason. Would be a potentially good stock photo. Think usage by people trying to sell last minute HSC services at this time of year : |
It must be crap. This thing is finished nine hours early! Cruising! The language is a bit all over the place, but it’s all in english, and the content is a bit year-11-and-12-rehash in places, but it’s mostly pretty alright (lots of Bahktinian self/other stuff going on, not that I actually thought to mention his name).
In other news I’m really hoping my new PC rocks up today. And that I have money to pay for the damn thing. We’ll see how it goes; if not today, tomorrow. Then I’ve got to get a copy of XP Pro and then I’ll be lost to RTS games for a few weeks. Sigh *good sigh*
Okay, so normally that term has pretty acceptable/well defined semantics… but what’s a “report[s] of textual transmission” in a fictional work?
I just wanna get a big doubleyew-tee-eff out there about that one. In full: “Dracula‘s reports of textual transmission ground its supernatural story in material reality.” My thoughts exactly. Dracula = the text by Stoker. “reports of textual transmission” = wtf1. There’s possibly a wtf2 in there but that hinges on interpretation of wtf1 so I’m not going to bother declaring it. Meh.
The only idea I have is that the “reports” bit is entirely redundant and it is speaking merely of textual transmission within the narrative itself. But that goes beyond mere bad English (which the sentence already is, IMO) and into the realm of… something much worse. Children are dying from HIV/AIDS in Africa because of this sentence.
This one seems to fly in from the office of a certain MH, whom I am utterly convinced is up there as one of the most turgid and incomprensible (obscure) academics in her entire School, if not the Arts faculty at large. She also takes an Arts II PoMo course which probably explains much of it.
Is there anything English-related that Patricia Parker won’t crop up in? My goodness. Shakespeare, modernism, Victorian literature, post-modernism, Romance, and goodness knows what else… her name just keeps cropping up. Lucky Stanford. I believe the word is “prolific”.
It just occurred to me that, to anyone listening from the other side of a wall whilst I’m using Photoshop, GIMP, Inkscape, Illustrator etc., it would sound an awful like I’m fragging the crap out of people. Ignoring, for a moment, the inconvenient problems of HF loss through walls (let’s say they’re blind and standing nearby, or the walls are made from paper), and the fact that I’m not that good at Counter-Strike to start with (and consequently after a minute or two of fragging sounds they should anticipate a sigh and then a cessation of clicking that just isn’t forthcoming with most graphics work).
Frag on, you crazy designers.