I guess I don't get how this would happen
Mass transmogrification, or something? Or they could just think about it for a minute or three before they hit the post button? Seriously, no idea. I do tend to think about numbers affected by a letter or public speech of mine, so I always assume everyone else will, as well. I don't know if part of my own thing is that I've been doing it so long, or if part of it is a history of activism (in the days when you couldn't be anonymous, pre-WWW), or whether it's just my own lack of anonymity, meaning that anyone who wants to read what I have to say can google me and call me on it.
So, no clue. It's really just a wistful wish on my part, not a demand or a rant or even a suggestion. More a kind of "You know what I'd really like...?" moment.
edit: "We can see that M is loopless" - loopless? You know, if I thought for a moment that was anything other than a math thing, I'd be dancing with delight. What a perfect phrase.
more edit: I have got to stop typing "raelly". I keep hearing Katharine Hepburn in my head, talking about callalillies being in bloom again.
Deb! I haven't posted with you in *ages.* You on IM?
Or they could just think about it for a minute or three before they hit the post button? Seriously, no idea. I do tend to think about numbers affected by a letter or public speech of mine, so I always assume everyone else will, as well.
So you're just saying you'd like them to be thinking something in particular, not doing something in particular? How do you know they're not already? (Well, aside from the "THIS BOOK SUX" people.)
(Well, aside from the "THIS BOOK SUX" people.)
(giggling)
Mostly from conversations with people I know who do post reviews regularly. There's been a long-term perception that the only people who read the things are other readers, rather than buyers - and that's where the responsibility ends. I just don't happen to agree, is all.
No big.
"We can see that M is loopless" - loopless? You know, if I thought for a moment that was anything other than a math thing, I'd be dancing with delight. What a perfect phrase.
Yes. The friend I was studying with started giving me strange looks when I started saying "loopless" every time I wrote the word. (As for what it means, pretty much, first, draw a bunch of dots of a piece of paper. Then draw lines connecting them -- you can either start at one dot and end at another, or you can pick a dot, start there, draw a circly thing, and end up back where you started without touching any other dots. You don't have to connect all of them -- you don't even have to draw any lines; you can just leave it as the dots. You now have a graph. If there aren't any of the second kind of line, you have a loopless graph.)
t /mathiness
I had no idea that was serious at all. None. And I read all the time.
Loopless! I am seriously loopless.
I love this phrase.
erika, truly, the difference in perception is probably of value to no one but me. Thing is, I'm a writer and someone who really thinks twice before posting a public review, and I have to remember, I'm nowhere near the majority on that one.
Sorry to have dropped the article and run; I should know better than to do so right at the end of the work day. I forgot the Washington Post is a pain in the rear about registration...
No, actually, I thought nobody ever read/posted them but losers...people have been missing my erudite literary reviews to no good purpose...I hate that when that happens.
