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Word - Guardian Musicblog
Posted by mdavies27 on 28 October 2010 - 3:37pm.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/oct/28/inky-fingers-maggo...
just noticed on the Guardian website, thought it was interesting.
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I'm not sure what the 'august' Mr Hep thinks of that.
And I'm also not quite sure what to make of the description of these here blogs as 'bewilderingly active'.
An odd piece of writing, in both tone and theme.
I look forward to Mr. Hepworth's considered opinion, if any.
"...if future cultural historians are ever looking for a sentence that encapsulates the way supposedly democratising trends in electronic communication have magnified the bogus sense of entitlement of pre-existing UK media elites, this one will do nicely."
If he's an august critc
what does he do for the other 11 months of the year?
My sentiments exactly,
especially the bit about about being 'bewilderingly active'. Snide I would call it. Perhaps if we all had earnest & ill-thought out discussions a la Polly Twaddle, they might 'respect' us more.
Bewilderingly active...
Blimey, I'm still in my Peejams.
Good to see the old maxim...
... "Why use one word when a thousand will do" being tested to the limit.
Must have got a thesaurus for his/her birthday.
But not, alas
any advice on the correct use of the word "latter"
Makes Morley
look like Swells.
I'm bewildered by all this activity
Actually, I'm more bewildered by the above-quoted phrase:
"...if future cultural historians are ever looking for a sentence that encapsulates the way supposedly democratising trends in electronic communication have magnified the bogus sense of entitlement of pre-existing UK media elites, this one will do nicely."
What does this actually mean? I'm pretty sure DH and Mayo are allowed to have the same opinion without it being in some way elitist or bogus, aren't they?
I think you'll find that
the bewilderingly comatose Guardian Musicblog is suffering from a dose of anal retentive cockery, or "iBuggery" as it will become known.
Somebody turn that into A Serbian Film quick.
Little bit of self-referential metabloggery. My name's Ben Elton, thank you, goodnight...
The least compelling of
As an experiment, I've just Googled "Le Noise unlistenable" and the first result was to a Word blog thread where, in the first paragraph it explains that David Hepworth thought the album was unlistenable.
Hardly much of a quest really.
As an aside...
Why isn't there a 'close quotes' on a block quote tag (see example above)? It looks 'untidy' to have just the open quote.
I have noticed that too
It seems to be how they are rendered - anything I've blockquoted here has been the same presentation.
It's a graphical element
Not an accurate representation of the proper punctuation. It's there to remind people that what follows is quoted from elsewhere, and it's a pretty common way of doing it.
This is especially true on community websites, because adding the closing quote generally requires the writer to insert some extra HTML. I'm not going to demand that everyone learn how to use <div> or <span> tags just so things look tidier.
Coo... You live and learn
I suppose I assumed it would 'just happen' when it encountered the
tag.
Note: I know less than bugger all about HTML :-)
There was 'nowt wrong with your assumption
It's a completely logical to expect that the closing quote tag would appear automatically. If only HTML was as consistent.
I'm just
actively bewildered, even more so after reading that pile of tripe.
In the accompanying photo
- is that an enlarged Lenny cover...?
What a load of old guff.
That is all. This person cannot write for toffee.
The clues are there
Look, it's very simple.
It's either Backwards7 or the Captain writing brilliantly contrived spoof claptrap solely for our amusement. They knew someone would spot it eventually.
I love those guys.
It's not real. Really, it can't be.
I'd like to make it…
...absolutely clear that whoever wrote it, it wasn't me.
Ouch
I hate writing like that. It reminds me of when you've got a fever and your mind races, making no sense and giving you a headache.
Less is more.
Should I have known
that the John Grant album was "gay" in some way? I have no idea what the writer is on about, genuinely.
I'm genuinely not sure...
.. but I think I was amused by that.