tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640521.post4242119861029001867..comments2024-01-06T05:34:00.027-06:00Comments on Blog Meridian: The electronic lever and fulcrumJohn B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06358811061653958120noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640521.post-7790406361840789622008-01-14T22:22:00.000-06:002008-01-14T22:22:00.000-06:00I had many deeper things to say about this, but at...I had many deeper things to say about this, but at this advanced hour can only babble that you should get on Youtube and punch in Taylor Malik (he is a slam poet) and look for a video called "The Impotence of Proofreading," which is most funny if one edits/grades papers. He also has a most eloquent piece on modern diction (like, y'know, etc) which I have actually used at seminars when encouragingCordeliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06815187015516177232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640521.post-6463995236692668852008-01-14T19:10:00.000-06:002008-01-14T19:10:00.000-06:00Randall, there's a long book to be written on the ...<B>Randall</B>, there's a long book to be written on the theme of technology's isolating us not just from the most basic human activities but from, well, the cosmos. But you know, it's sort of already been written, come to think of it: <I>Walden</I>.<BR/><BR/><B>Ashley</B>, Blogger does occasionally eat comments; thanks for persisting. As for those wavy green lines, if you feel uncertainty thenJohn B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06358811061653958120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640521.post-9394396659922238932008-01-14T17:50:00.000-06:002008-01-14T17:50:00.000-06:00Ashley . . . so glad you overcame your impulse tow...Ashley . . . so glad you overcame your impulse toward shyness.<BR/><BR/>I'm astonished when I contemplate the number of friends' phone numbers I knew by heart (so to speak) ten or fifteen years ago . . .Sheila Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02030653752024764363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640521.post-89023418334827260632008-01-14T16:03:00.000-06:002008-01-14T16:03:00.000-06:00So I spent some time trying to leave a thoughtful ...So I spent some time trying to leave a thoughtful comment. A response, in part to this lovely post, but also in an attempt to not be shy.<BR/><BR/>Does blogger frequently "lose" comments or am I doing something wrong repeatedly???<BR/><BR/>Okay. Back to a valid comment.<BR/><BR/> Yes! Well said even though I must admit that as a student one of the most difficult tasks for me is to stare at the AshleyChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01991550778159061174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640521.post-33322023193338926302008-01-14T07:00:00.000-06:002008-01-14T07:00:00.000-06:00Not to sound like a Luddite here, but that is alwa...Not to sound like a Luddite here, but that is always the problem with technology: every advance in the "tools" of human endeavor leads to a decrease in self-reliance. If the tools disappear, we become helpless and have to relearn the "old ways."<BR/><BR/>Cheers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640521.post-66334053670472569792008-01-13T19:33:00.000-06:002008-01-13T19:33:00.000-06:00Thanks for your comments, Sheila.Absolutely: the o...Thanks for your comments, Sheila.<BR/><BR/>Absolutely: the <I>other</I> post I could have written is how unprepared so many of our students are for those things that college work presumes a knowledge of. I have very few students who were read to as children or who read for pleasure, too; those environmental factors are also pretty good predictors of success in college generally. I'd just say John B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06358811061653958120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640521.post-86903708317579095422008-01-13T15:33:00.000-06:002008-01-13T15:33:00.000-06:00I'm altogether (one l) with you, John, about the d...I'm altogether (one <I>l</I>) with you, John, about the deadfalls and snares that litter the path of computer-aided composition.<BR/><BR/>So I'm really just setting myself up as my own devil's advocate in observing that a certain degree of knowledge helps in the use of many writing aids. To get the full benefit of my beloved dead-tree edition of <I>Roget's Thesaurus</I>, for instance, I already Sheila Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02030653752024764363noreply@blogger.com