“…thought is half murdered…”
I frequently catch myself typing words that would be (properly, justly) skewered by Clive james. Just read, The Continuing Insult to the English Language for examples not found at twc (there’s one!) before searching for easily-found examples here.
*heh*
The characteristic sentence on the web is transmitted in a nano-second across the world and then slows to a crawl within the reader’s brain, almost always because the grammar is out of whack: vocabulary is abundant, but its analytical deployment is an approximate mess.
Yeh, what he said. 
Oh, and about the post title: can someone point me to the rest of the quote from “The Prophet”? *g* Not that important. I (gladly) “lost” my own copy years ago, but dribs and drabs of the thing have stuck to me.
Trackposted to Diary of the Mad Pigeon, Perri Nelson’s Website, Woman Honor Thyself, , Blue Star Chronicles, The Right Nation, The Pink Flamingo, Stuck On Stupid, Cao’s Blog, Leaning Straight Up, The Amboy Times, Conservative Cat, and Right Voices, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.
Posted: April 27th, 2007 under Blogroll.
Tags: stupid is as stupid does
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Comments
Comment from Perri Nelson
Time April 27, 2007 at 8:28 AM
That’s an excellent read you’ve linked to. I hate to think how many of the grammatical sins he talks about I succumb to.
Comment from David
Time April 27, 2007 at 9:54 AM
Thanks, Diane, for the Gibran quote in context. And for the reminder about the CSS context. The fun part is that Little changed where a lot of the CSS is so I’ll need to hunt down the right place to put it… More fun!
The other thing I need to fix is the wonky comment box sizing itself improperly. Other stuff (besides, well, work and other RW tasks) is on my plate today, though, so I’ll have to let those things kinda back burner for a day or two.
Thanks again for the help!
Perri–yeh. I don’t count ending sentences/clauses in prepositions any more, myself. Heck even my grammarian mother doesn’t fuss about such things any longer.
Comment from Diane
Time April 27, 2007 at 10:04 AM
YW! Just at the bottom of the css file should be fine.
Comment from The Random Yak
Time April 27, 2007 at 12:54 PM
Just to throw a random monkey wrench in the works…
I couldn’t have helped with “The Prophet” – in part because the only thing that came to mind upon seeing your title was a quote from Henry IV, Part 1, Act V, Scene iv: “But thought’s the slave of life, and life time’s fool;/ And time, that take survey of all the world,/ Must have a stop.”
Irrelevant. Random. In sum, perfectly in character for me on a Friday.
Comment from David
Time April 27, 2007 at 3:17 PM
Thanks, Yak. That spurred thought of musical teleology again…
Again, semi-randomly firing synapses.
Comment from David
Time April 27, 2007 at 8:26 PM
Just thought: an explanation of “gladly ‘lost’ my copy…”
Loaned it to someone and never got it back. Notaproblem. I’d already read it, ya know.
Comment from Diane
Time April 27, 2007 at 7:15 AM
And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered. For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.
All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
You forgot to add the trackback stuff to the css it looks like