Happy National Day on Writing

Oct 20, 2009 13:35

Yes, technically November is NaNoWriMo, which continues to look like a bad idea when one is working full time and taking two grad school classes. However, for those of us with the spirit but also the time crunch, today is the first ever National Day on Writing, hosted by NCTE (Nat'l Council for Teachers of English), and signed into officialdom by ( Read more... )

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lee_rowan October 20 2009, 18:20:08 UTC
When you get proclamations written by someone communicating in Newspeak, Political Afflatus, or Academic INflatus, you seldom get anything worth reading.

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lokei October 20 2009, 18:53:15 UTC
True enough. All good reasons why I didn't go into journalism, politics, or higher academia. But still, isn't it lovely to find those people even in the insufferable pomposity who love language and treat it well?

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