Comments on: Venice

By: oh holy good god at E. M. Esq.

oh holy good god at E. M. Esq. — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:58:44 +0000

[...] I got a call from my bank’s fraud department a couple of weeks ago. It seems that while I was over in February I neglected to take the necessary precautions with my Laser card on one or more [...]

By: Dr. Halpinstein

Dr. Halpinstein — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:42:32 +0000

Hey I covered crazy cult leaders. Secondly you’re not Shakespeare so none of this numbering words stuff.

By: David

David — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:33:22 +0000

@ Halpinstein: It only took one. His name was L. Ron Hubbard.
@ Colm: You counted your words? Impressive efficiency – even for you.

By: Colm

Colm — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:25:33 +0000

I refer you to words 12 through 17 of my original comment. And you may note that’s not what I took you to task for anyway.

By: Dr. Halpinstein

Dr. Halpinstein — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:04:09 +0000

I’ll have to argue with your task taking. You can’t classify yourself without it being dubious. That is like interpreting reflexology as anything other than mindless shit because an expert in it wrote a book. It takes more than one to make it so.

By: Colm

Colm — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:25:23 +0000

Dear David

I.e. = id est = that is. It could fit what you’ve written, but you’d have to rephrase it. You will note that I am correct in this regard.

Best wishes,

Colm

By: David.

David. — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:17:42 +0000

I prefer using i.e.(in other words) works just as well as e.g.(for example).

You still haven’t said where the wazoo is… trying to hide something, O’Brien?

By: Colm

Colm — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:41:06 +0000

It’s a silly thing to argue about. A writer’s a writer. Anything beyond that is empty semantics.

Fellas, I’m going to have to take you to task for some shoddy use of language:

1) Use of phrase “Subjectively speaking” without any apparent meaning;

2) Use of “i.e.” instead of “e.g.”.

Tut, and a further tut.

By: David

David — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:19:41 +0000

So you keep your inspiration up your wazoo? (Anatomically speaking, where exactly is that?)

I’m going to disagree with Halpinstein on the other point – technically writers are writers without getting paid. i.e – My grandmother writes fictitious letters of complaint to hundreds of companies a year. I’d call her a writer.

By: Dr. Halpinstein

Dr. Halpinstein — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:33:39 +0000

Are you a writer before you do it for money? Subjectively speaking you need at least two other writers to agree that you are also a writer for it to be so. Same with Scientists. That is where the whole cult leader thing is easy. Since there’s only meant to be one Messiah and you’re it who can honestly dispute it but a person who is quite obviously wrong.