Arquivo para maio, 2008
A política é má demasiado, mas eu deixarei aquele de lado.
O Congress passou recentemente uma parte de legislação sabida affectionately como NOPEC, que pode também estar para ninguém espera possivelmente a claridade, mas é preferivelmente um acrônimo para o No. Oil-Producing e - exportando Cartels aja. “Aprovado, eu adicionei os hypens porque ninguém em Washington, C.C., poderiam possivelmente compreender adjetivos compostos, deixei a escrita sozinha básica, inglês desobstruído.
O que este ato é permite o Congress e seus henchmen designados para sue países do OPEC se sentirem o último têm retido a produção do óleo e têm levantado assim artificial preços com a manipulação da fonte e da demanda. A sorte boa com estes lawsuits, mas vamos fazer exame de um olhar na língua permitindo de NOPEC:
“Será ilegal e uma violação deste ato,” declarou a casa de representantes, “para limitar de outra maneira a produção ou a distribuição do óleo, gás natural, ou todo o outro produto de petróleo… ou à tomada qualquer ação no restraint de comércio para o óleo, gás natural ou todo o produto de petróleo quando tal ação, combinação, ou a ação coletiva têm um efeito direto, substancial, e razoavelmente foreseeable no mercado, fonte, preço ou distribuição do óleo, gás natural ou o outro produto de petróleo nos Estados Unidos.”
Como I dito, sorte boa com NOPEC. E sorte boa com inglês do espaço livre da escrita. Você necessitá-lo-á em ambos os casos.
Os journalists dos esportes do mundo feito hay esta semana passada com allegations esse phenom O.j. do basketball da faculdade de USC. Mayo tinha sido na tomada o todo - tempo desde a High School.
Alguns dias depois que a história quebrou, Mayo encontraram-se com com Tempos de Los Angeles repórter Ben Bolch para negar os allegations, dig:
“Assim para que digam eu recebi $30.000 ou o que quer que o caso é, eu definitivamente não penso que é bastantes a vender para fora eu mesmo e minha família.”
Isso estava no seguinte-à-último parágrafo. É aqui o que o último parágrafo observou:
“Seguir a entrevista, Mayo deslizou fora em um Porsche vermelho novo Pimenta de Caiena GTS com dois amigos e expeliu.”
Justaposição de Nice. Ou era irony?
Seen in my hometown of Rowland Heights, Calif.
Actually, I’d frequent this place if there were any truth in advertising. Why not quaff a gin and tonic while getting your haircut?
However, the owners clearly meant salon.
The sign behind it is also interesting. With vin in the title, I was expecting a wine shop. instead, the place sells traditional Chinese dresses.
Every year, English teachers from across the country submit their collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of teachers across the country.
Here are last year’s winners:
1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
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I’ll answer that question for you. Yes, you do, if you’re human.
What subvocalize means is that you mentally "fill in the blanks" as you’re writing, but your reader will not be able to do the same when he or she reads it. There are many reasons that we all leave "holes" in our writing, including haste, exuberance and lack of experience.
Nonetheless, there is a cure for subvocalizing and thus making your writing understandable only to you. That cure is to leave the writing in the computer, or sitting on the table, for a day or more if you have the time. After you’ve slept on things, you’ll wake up and read your writing and realize you skipped along too hastily and left some matters unexplained or incompletely explained.
I’ve written about the ideal writing process before, but an article I stumbled upon today reminded me of the need for "curing time" in writing, so my thanks to the author of that article, Richard Kallan.
I was watching an ESPN telecast when the host brought on a PR expert in reclaiming one’s reputation. The subject, obviously, was Roger Clements and his string of lies ever since he was revealed to be a ‘roids monstrosity.
This PR guy said there was a six-step process to recover one’s reputation and that the first two steps were "truth" and "honesty."
"There’s a difference?" I kept thinking.
So I looked up the two words:
Truth is defined as "the true or actual state of a matter" by dictionary.com (the first meaning given). Honesty is defined, first meaning, as "the quality or fact of being honest; uprightness and fairness."
So, I assume what PR guy meant was that, first, one had to begin telling the truth, and second, one had to adopt a policy of always telling the truth.
I still think the two are redundant since, if you adopt either truth or honesty as a policy, you’ll achieve the same goal.
However, it’s highly unlikely that Roger Clements has any intention of telling the truth or adopting honesty. Deceit is his only mode other than bullying others.
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