I also saw The Meowmorphosis, in which the narrator wakes up as a kitten.
Wait. People? She eats people? 'To Serve Man.' It's 'To Serve Man' all over again.
Gunn ,'Power Play'
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."
Polter-Cow - Jun 15, 2011 12:33:23 pm PDT #15272 of 28286
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Volans - Jun 15, 2011 1:02:45 pm PDT #15273 of 28286
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 28286
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 28286
"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 28286
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 28286
brillig
What do you mean by sentence boundaries? Where one should end them, and how to avoid run-ons?
§ ita § - Jun 15, 2011 1:54:11 pm PDT #15278 of 28286
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How close is too close? I vote for at least one space.
DavidS - Jun 15, 2011 1:54:40 pm PDT #15279 of 28286
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
This is why you need stone-word fences.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 15, 2011 1:56:13 pm PDT #15280 of 28286
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Good fences make good neighbors.
§ ita § - Jun 15, 2011 1:56:38 pm PDT #15281 of 28286
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hey! Kidz! Get offa ma dangling participle!