Comments on: google, capitalism, grammar http://www.clickclackgorilla.com/2008/11/21/google-capitalism-grammar/ tales of marauding, plundering, and international gorilla conspiracy Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:26:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: doodle http://www.clickclackgorilla.com/2008/11/21/google-capitalism-grammar/comment-page-1/#comment-34905 doodle Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:53:54 +0000 http://www.clickclackgorilla.com/?p=93#comment-34905 http://podpeep.blogspot.com/ http://podpeep.blogspot.com/

]]> By: doodle http://www.clickclackgorilla.com/2008/11/21/google-capitalism-grammar/comment-page-1/#comment-34904 doodle Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:52:41 +0000 http://www.clickclackgorilla.com/?p=93#comment-34904 Larry: If you go to the POD People website linked on this page you can search this book and find my full reveiw of it there. In said review, I give the book a pretty positive spin, because, I reasoned, it is always important to have as many personal accounts of events like this--especially of this particular time in America history--as possible, written by as many people as possible, than to have a book with a snappy writing style. There I say that it doesn't so much matter that it's written so familiarly, as it matters that Hurst wrote the book at all and that it's out there, addressing issues that will soon get as much glossing-over in history class as the genocide of the American Indians. Racism in America--in Europe, anywhere--is by no means ancient history, but this post is about a specific point that got me thinking, and that I figured I would expound on here, in order to get other people thinking about it. I hope you didn't find it offensive. It was intended as a discussion of a grammar geek point, with a little bit of hey, we should all think about this a bit thrown in. Larry: If you go to the POD People website linked on this page you can search this book and find my full reveiw of it there. In said review, I give the book a pretty positive spin, because, I reasoned, it is always important to have as many personal accounts of events like this–especially of this particular time in America history–as possible, written by as many people as possible, than to have a book with a snappy writing style. There I say that it doesn’t so much matter that it’s written so familiarly, as it matters that Hurst wrote the book at all and that it’s out there, addressing issues that will soon get as much glossing-over in history class as the genocide of the American Indians.

Racism in America–in Europe, anywhere–is by no means ancient history, but this post is about a specific point that got me thinking, and that I figured I would expound on here, in order to get other people thinking about it. I hope you didn’t find it offensive. It was intended as a discussion of a grammar geek point, with a little bit of hey, we should all think about this a bit thrown in.

]]> By: Larry Vance http://www.clickclackgorilla.com/2008/11/21/google-capitalism-grammar/comment-page-1/#comment-34652 Larry Vance Sat, 13 Dec 2008 22:42:09 +0000 http://www.clickclackgorilla.com/?p=93#comment-34652 Wow. Talk about missing the point. Or maybe not. Maybe you got it just fine but didn't like what it had to say, basically that racial violence in America is not ancient history. I'm white, and about Hurst's age, i.e. came of age in the Civil Rights Movement and I knew nothing of this incident. I found this a fascinating read. So what that it's in a more familiar than scholarly style. It's a memoir, not a doctoral dissertation. Your taking umbrage at his use of Black and white, and never getting any farther in understanding his message, says more about you and race than it does about Mr. Hurst writing style. Wow. Talk about missing the point. Or maybe not. Maybe you got it just fine but didn’t like what it had to say, basically that racial violence in America is not ancient history. I’m white, and about Hurst’s age, i.e. came of age in the Civil Rights Movement and I knew nothing of this incident. I found this a fascinating read. So what that it’s in a more familiar than scholarly style. It’s a memoir, not a doctoral dissertation. Your taking umbrage at his use of Black and white, and never getting any farther in understanding his message, says more about you and race than it does about Mr. Hurst writing style.

]]> By: Alex http://www.clickclackgorilla.com/2008/11/21/google-capitalism-grammar/comment-page-1/#comment-31606 Alex Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:57:30 +0000 http://www.clickclackgorilla.com/?p=93#comment-31606 Hehe, that's the kind of thing that would really annoy me too. Although, you can get caught up in the proof-reading stuff and be reading a book/magazine for enjoyment, yet subconsciously be looking for mistakes...AP gets my vote too. Hehe, that’s the kind of thing that would really annoy me too. Although, you can get caught up in the proof-reading stuff and be reading a book/magazine for enjoyment, yet subconsciously be looking for mistakes…AP gets my vote too.

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