Yeah, I think that blog is the kind of thing that would be delightful to dip into now and then as someone's published diary, maybe, but somehow unrolling on the screen in perpetuity it's just awful.
I backed off of footnotes because I didn't want to become her system of fifteen million footnotes indicated by protracted grawlix! I used to use them a lot in both reviews and general posts. Now something has to be really serious or under an LJ-cut to rate a footnote because I have looked into the abyss and it is four degree symbols in a row.
Yeah, it reads to me like what people think dialogue is like, although when you listen to recordings of how people actually talk, you realize how fragmentary and allusive and downright odd actual human speech is.
I was just trying to edit my comment to wonder if it was the effect of podcasts being such a popular art form: if people are now writing for the eye as if for the ear. (If the answer is yes, it's going to drive me up the wall. Simulated meandering is not something I enjoy even listening to.)
Haha no. You still need those people, they can't be replaced by a program.
You mean "illicit" is not interchangeable with "elicit"?
I don't want to nitpick the critic's spelling because that seems petty; homonyms happen and people re-reading their own work see the words they expect to see. I don't make typos often, but I have had some ridiculous ones get past me into the wild. I do think it's fair to nitpick the market not getting a pair of second eyes on it, which I agree with you it does not look like they did.
and I've caught a lot since the NYT went mostly online
Didn't they purge most of their copyeditors recently?
Or like reading a single page in a book, rather than having prose be running down a screen that's one of 20 or 100 or 200 tabs open at the top.
I learn better from books. It's three-dimensional. I can place passages by where I read them first: how far through the book, which side of the page, how far down the page. I can't do that with scrolls. It's one of the reasons I still prefer to read as much as I can in print and ink. I don't want something to vanish out of my head just because there's no way to fix position on a screen.
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I backed off of footnotes because I didn't want to become her system of fifteen million footnotes indicated by protracted grawlix! I used to use them a lot in both reviews and general posts. Now something has to be really serious or under an LJ-cut to rate a footnote because I have looked into the abyss and it is four degree symbols in a row.
Yeah, it reads to me like what people think dialogue is like, although when you listen to recordings of how people actually talk, you realize how fragmentary and allusive and downright odd actual human speech is.
I was just trying to edit my comment to wonder if it was the effect of podcasts being such a popular art form: if people are now writing for the eye as if for the ear. (If the answer is yes, it's going to drive me up the wall. Simulated meandering is not something I enjoy even listening to.)
Haha no. You still need those people, they can't be replaced by a program.
You mean "illicit" is not interchangeable with "elicit"?
I don't want to nitpick the critic's spelling because that seems petty; homonyms happen and people re-reading their own work see the words they expect to see. I don't make typos often, but I have had some ridiculous ones get past me into the wild. I do think it's fair to nitpick the market not getting a pair of second eyes on it, which I agree with you it does not look like they did.
and I've caught a lot since the NYT went mostly online
Didn't they purge most of their copyeditors recently?
Or like reading a single page in a book, rather than having prose be running down a screen that's one of 20 or 100 or 200 tabs open at the top.
I learn better from books. It's three-dimensional. I can place passages by where I read them first: how far through the book, which side of the page, how far down the page. I can't do that with scrolls. It's one of the reasons I still prefer to read as much as I can in print and ink. I don't want something to vanish out of my head just because there's no way to fix position on a screen.