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<font face="Calibri">My brother recently drew my attention to the
following sentence by Pootwattle:</font><br>
<blockquote><font face="Georgia">The Virtual Academic(TM), says:<br>
The writing of narrative qua narrative chronicles the
(re)invention of process.</font><br>
[<font face="Georgia">Smedley, the Virtual Critic(TM), responds:
Pootwattle's suggestive observation concerning the relationship
between the writing of narrative qua narrative and the
(re)invention of process can never supplant the work of the
Frankfurt school.]</font></blockquote>
Wuddyathink of "to chronicle"?<br>
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For more: <font face="Georgia"> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://writing-program.uchicago.edu/toys/randomsentence/index.htm">http://writing-program.uchicago.edu/toys/randomsentence/index.htm</a></font><br>
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Yours,<br>
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Nicolas Meeùs<br>
Université Paris-Sorbonne<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 11/09/2012 16:39, Dmitri Tymoczko a
écrit :<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Sep 7, 2012, at 10:38 AM, art samplaski wrote:
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<pre wrap="">"Transition" is a NOUN, ladies and gentlemen.
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<pre wrap="">I have two things to say about this, one frivolous and one serious.
1. (Frivolous) For those who are interested in issues of prescriptivism and language change, I heartily recommend the blog "Language Log," run by my friend Mark Liberman (with the help of many very smart contributors). Mark recently wrote the latest in a long series of posts on "verbing." (The name originates with Calvin's memorable remark to Hobbes: "verbing weirds language").
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4161">http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4161</a>
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