Showing posts with label asterisk-taking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label asterisk-taking. Show all posts
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
Italics
I don't know about you, but I find it deeply inconvenient that one cannot easily emphasise the first person singular. (If you write it between asterisks, it makes you look like a dick.)
Friday, 14 October 2011
Signs of The Times
In today's Times2, Richard Morrison reports on Maurice Sendak calling 'the novelist Salman Rushdie' (not the Salman Rushdie who stacks shelves down the ASDA) a 'flaccid fuckhead'.
At least, I assume that's what Sendak called him. What it says in the Times is 'f***head'. Which is only right and proper, because one wouldn't want decent Times-reading folk coughing up their porridge because someone called someone else a fuckhead. Perish the thought.
Morrison's own headline, though, reads: 'I can take criticism, but not from a flaccid $*!?%*&# like you.' Which mal mot is he talking about now? And do the two asterisks stand for the same letter?
At least, I assume that's what Sendak called him. What it says in the Times is 'f***head'. Which is only right and proper, because one wouldn't want decent Times-reading folk coughing up their porridge because someone called someone else a fuckhead. Perish the thought.
Morrison's own headline, though, reads: 'I can take criticism, but not from a flaccid $*!?%*&# like you.' Which mal mot is he talking about now? And do the two asterisks stand for the same letter?
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