More specifically concerning: usage
of doubtful origin
10 August 2003, around 8.21.
Provenance unknown.
Citation (30)
30 March 2008, around 5.30.
Robert Musil gets twisted up.
affected puppy
14 August 2023, around 4.17.
I have always observed that the most learned people, that is, those who have read the most Latin, write the worst; and that distinguishes the Latin of gentleman scholar from that of a pedant. A gentleman has, probably, read no other Latin than that of the Augustan age; and therefore can write no other, whereas […]
revolutionary changes
13 August 2024, around 15.04.
Editing involves so many arbitrary changes to suit style (serial comma), to avoid baiting someone else’s bête noire (‘since’ only allowed as a temporal adverb), or to satisfy the conventions of genre and jargon (‘discriminating power’). My latest arbitrary textual reaction is to ‘revolves around’, as in ‘the conversation revolved around the sound of chymes’ […]