Comments on: Boring technical details… http://listics.com/2006041281 Frank Paynter's Voice and Vision... Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:09:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Frank Paynter http://listics.com/2006041281/comment-page-1#comment-89 Frank Paynter Thu, 13 Apr 2006 20:56:06 +0000 http://listics.com/2006041281#comment-89 Mary and AKMA! How nice to hear from you here. AKMA, you have collated out to the top of all of our lists for too long. While it was easy to banish you to the bottom with a few simple keystrokes, I hope you appreciate the adjacency to ze Frank, a really nice guy. Mary, there are a couple of aspects of the paper that I will explore here when it's published. Let me know when it's posted somewhere so I can do that with some context. The "Rule of Five" method is simple, creative, and obvious when it's been elaborated... congratulations on <a href="http://body2see.blogspot.com/2006/04/class-of-1922-helping-students-learn.html" rel="nofollow">winning the award!</a> Mary and AKMA! How nice to hear from you here. AKMA, you have collated out to the top of all of our lists for too long. While it was easy to banish you to the bottom with a few simple keystrokes, I hope you appreciate the adjacency to ze Frank, a really nice guy.

Mary, there are a couple of aspects of the paper that I will explore here when it’s published. Let me know when it’s posted somewhere so I can do that with some context. The “Rule of Five” method is simple, creative, and obvious when it’s been elaborated… congratulations on winning the award!

]]> By: Mary Godwin http://listics.com/2006041281/comment-page-1#comment-88 Mary Godwin Thu, 13 Apr 2006 19:22:28 +0000 http://listics.com/2006041281#comment-88 Students in my freshman composition class are still in the days before grade inflation, though they regularly encourage me to update my methods. As to the "F" you received, it obviously had no bearing on your work as a writer. I join others in offering assurance of your inviting skill. The use of "foreground" as a verb is one more indication of the magnificently fluid nature of the English language. "Foreground" appears as a transitive verb in dictionaries published after 2003, so your teacher’s instruction to prohibit its use would have a date attached, but you did make me do my work with this one, Frank. In the meantime, feel free (now) to foreground any point that needs/wants highlighting, spotlighting, or playing up. Best atcha -mg Students in my freshman composition class are still in the days before grade inflation, though they regularly encourage me to update my methods. As to the “F” you received, it obviously had no bearing on your work as a writer. I join others in offering assurance of your inviting skill.

The use of “foreground” as a verb is one more indication of the magnificently fluid nature of the English language. “Foreground” appears as a transitive verb in dictionaries published after 2003, so your teacher’s instruction to prohibit its use would have a date attached, but you did make me do my work with this one, Frank. In the meantime, feel free (now) to foreground any point that needs/wants highlighting, spotlighting, or playing up. Best atcha -mg

]]> By: AKMA http://listics.com/2006041281/comment-page-1#comment-87 AKMA Thu, 13 Apr 2006 16:51:16 +0000 http://listics.com/2006041281#comment-87 From the heights to the depths with the simple stroke of a keyboard — oh, the ignominy! From the heights to the depths with the simple stroke of a keyboard — oh, the ignominy!

]]> By: fp http://listics.com/2006041281/comment-page-1#comment-86 fp Thu, 13 Apr 2006 12:59:34 +0000 http://listics.com/2006041281#comment-86 Stu... I have no clu re how technorati sorts this stuff out. There are other links out there similarly unreflected. Tamar, you are a sweetie. When I returned to school I was stuffed into a real bonehead english section with <a href="http://www.riverwestcurrents.org/2003/December/001213.html" rel="nofollow">Mike Pikuleff as the graduate instructor.</a> Mike had the grace to be embarrassed by the bonehead english requirement and gave me an A and didn't ask me to show up much as long as I handed in the work. So the F and the A averaged out into a C which was a lesson in leveling at least. Stu… I have no clu re how technorati sorts this stuff out. There are other links out there similarly unreflected.

Tamar, you are a sweetie. When I returned to school I was stuffed into a real bonehead english section with Mike Pikuleff as the graduate instructor. Mike had the grace to be embarrassed by the bonehead english requirement and gave me an A and didn’t ask me to show up much as long as I handed in the work. So the F and the A averaged out into a C which was a lesson in leveling at least.

]]> By: Stu Savory http://listics.com/2006041281/comment-page-1#comment-85 Stu Savory Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:19:43 +0000 http://listics.com/2006041281#comment-85 Never verb no nouns! And while you're working on the typography, try setting the linespacing higher, to e.g. 140%. Stu PS: So why doesn't my blog appear in the list of blogs that link to you? listics has been on my blogroll for a couple of weeks already! Never verb no nouns!

And while you’re working on the typography, try setting the linespacing higher, to e.g. 140%.

Stu
PS: So why doesn’t my blog appear in the list of blogs that link to you? listics has been on my blogroll for a couple of weeks already!

]]> By: Tamar http://listics.com/2006041281/comment-page-1#comment-84 Tamar Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:14:38 +0000 http://listics.com/2006041281#comment-84 Phew ... glad I'm still there ... A-list or not. And, Frank, you are ... a good writer. No matter about the F. I only ever dared go to college when I was 39! Phew … glad I’m still there … A-list or not.

And, Frank, you are … a good writer. No matter about the F. I only ever dared go to college when I was 39!

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