In addition to emails offering hundreds of "real" reviews of books I’ve published, one offered to create an AI Me, trained on my books, to converse with readers and sign copies of my books (digitally), leaving me free to write more or to go into stasis. blogs.illinois.edu/view/25/4857...
London Times headline reads transport secretary rescued by AA after car hits 'crater-sized' pothole.
Posted without comment
Medicare ad says, Stay healthy with Dr. Oz
No, I don't think so...
sunset from plane at 12,000 feet.i
Plane home was 1.5 hours late but instead of extra miles as compensation we got to see a great prairie sunset.
Snack label says made with 100% real food ingredients.
I have often been less than thrilled with airline meals, but I suppose I should be heartened by this message on today's American Airlines snack.
email offer to turn me into a conversational replica.
Forget the fake book reviews, here's an offer to turn me into an ai bot. Excuse me, a "conversational replica." Help me, obi wan...
A mailbox in Hove decorated with stuffed animals.
Waiting for the Royal Mail.
Streetlight against the evening sky
Streetlight against the evening sky
Lights on Hove Promenade, just after sunset
Sunset in Hove
Sunset in Hove
Hove sunset
A view of an old village street leading to misty downs.
A misty afternoon on the South Downs
overhead view of coffee cup after coffee has been drunk
Today's coffeegram
Three cyclists riding at low tide on the water-covered sand
Cycling away from the sunset on Hove Beach
little kid ignoring the equinox, jumping on the beach at low tide
Sometimes it's more fun to ignore the equinox.
sunset at hove beach
Equinox at Hove Beach!
sunset at hove beach
Beach walkers
Beach walking before sunset
beach cafe subset
beach sunset
More sunset pics on the English Channel
Sunset at Hove Beach
Sundowners at Hove Beach.
I see no one's trying to bring back cuneiform. Or telling time on a "face clock."
A.N. Gossett's proposal for idn
Here is the proposal. Gossett pronounces idn as "eden," but when asked how he came up with the word he doesn't answer.
gossett didn't elaborate on a derivation. as i recall, in the end the voters rejected the new constitution.
Proposal of the inclusive pronoun idn
Pronouns in the news, 1922 ed.: Today red states are outlawing pronouns, but more than a century ago Kansas City Judge A. N. Gossett proposed to the state Constitutional Convention that Missouri add the inclusive pronoun "idn" to state law. It did not pass. Marionville (MO) Free Press, Nov. 9, 1922.
Recall the dramatic assassination of Julius Caesar with the Julius Caesar Desk Pen Holder. Bust of Caesar with pens and pencils stabbing him in the back.
Classic Comic of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Two pictures to mark the Ides of March.
Chicago weather just now: "Although skies may have seemed calm in the early morning, “that’s gonna change here later,” said Kevin Doom, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service."
Amazed that the admin's anti-climate-changers permit a meteorologist named DOOM to forecast the weather.
Grammar Day may be over, but the grammar gripes just keep on coming. This week, articles appeared in two major dailies, the Wall Street Journal and the Daily Telegraph, criticizing the grammar gaffes of the rich, the famous, and the reprehensible.
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As long as we continue to teach in text book and class that there are pronouns, common and neuter genders, there will be abundant room for reform.
Pronouns in the news, 1897 edition: The writer agrees with earlier claims that English has only two genders, masculine and feminine. A precursor to today's red-state anti-pronoun laws and an executive order. Edwardsville, IL, Intelligencer, Nov. 2, 1897, p.2.As
The Bee says trochaic is not in its word list.
on the other hand
New York Times Spelling Bee allows the word epicene.
The 🐝 is gender inclusive.
Article critical of Young's heer, hiser, himer, which the author treats as part of the simplified spelling movement.
Pronouns in the news, 1912 edition: Making fun of coined gender pronouns is as old as the pronouns themselves. When Ella Flagg Young backed he'er, him'er, his'er, a writer jokingly offered to reduce "you or I" to "youri," and "me and you" to "menu." Greenville IL Advocate, Jan. 11, 1912.
2/2 Being good teachers, they use it in a sentence: "If the person who lost a's purse will call at this office a will perhaps hear of it." And, "There is a beggar at the door." "Well, give un that piece of bread and meat." The Greenville Advocate, April 17, 1879, p. 1.