I love diagramming sentences. It makes English mathy!
We killed a homeless man on this bench. Me and Dru. Those were good times. You know, he begged for mercy, and you know, that only made her bite harder.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Jessica - Jun 15, 2011 9:47:40 am PDT #15268 of 28448
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Tom Scola - Jun 15, 2011 10:25:03 am PDT #15269 of 28448
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Consuela - Jun 15, 2011 10:36:01 am PDT #15270 of 28448
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Pretty!
Toddson - Jun 15, 2011 12:26:41 pm PDT #15271 of 28448
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I'm hoping some of the fiction trends are running themselves into the ground. I was on a site and saw an ad for a book that starts off with "werewolf terrorists" and "a warlock cop". um, er, I don't think it's comedy
And, continuing the trend that started with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - and continued with Jane Eyre, Little Women, Sense and Sensibility, Abraham Linkcoln and Queen Victoria as vampire/demon slayers, and Shakespeare Undead - someone has done one on Tom Sawyer; can't remember if it was zombies, vampires, or what.
Polter-Cow - Jun 15, 2011 12:33:23 pm PDT #15272 of 28448
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I also saw The Meowmorphosis, in which the narrator wakes up as a kitten.
Volans - Jun 15, 2011 1:02:45 pm PDT #15273 of 28448
move out and draw fire
What Jessica said! I remember reading in some education journal that grammar and math use the same part of the brain, and I thought, "Well, duh."
But I've never been able to convince either mathy types nor wordy types of that.
Edited. DYAC.
Laga - Jun 15, 2011 1:08:07 pm PDT #15274 of 28448
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
That makes sense but I can see why people would be hard to convince. Grammar feels like it comes naturally to me whereas I have to work at math. I can't look at an equation and tell something is wrong (even if I'm not sure what it is) the way I can with a sentence.
Kat - Jun 15, 2011 1:09:29 pm PDT #15275 of 28448
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I love diagramming sentences. It makes English mathy!
And it makes it visual. It's not a great skill to teach kids in a world of limited time/maximum testing though.
Speaking of which, my students, age 17 and 18 (and occasionally 19 and one is 20) are having a problem with sentence boundaries. Fully 90% of errors are sentence boundaries. How the hell do I teach that crap?
lisah - Jun 15, 2011 1:51:39 pm PDT #15276 of 28448
Punishingly Intricate
Fully 90% of errors are sentence boundaries. How the hell do I teach that crap?
Lots of reading out loud? (Signed, Can't really teach anyone anything so who am I to say?)
Connie Neil - Jun 15, 2011 1:53:32 pm PDT #15277 of 28448
brillig
What do you mean by sentence boundaries? Where one should end them, and how to avoid run-ons?