The number one computer is still down and the computer tech is mainly responsible. The future of our files is uncertain. So because of that, and the holidays, my work pattern is also down, and I’m sending out a mercifully short Parvum Opus.
I wish you all a most excellent New Year.
A Literary Christmas
I got some great Christmas gifts this year, particularly good ones because the givers thought about what I like: books, but not only books.
One is a mug with the John Tenniel drawing of Alice in Wonderland looking at the Cheshire Cat. When you pour in a hot drink, the cat’s face disappears, leaving only — of course — the grin. I’ve read Alice in Wonderland numerous times. It’s one of those children’s books that can take on new shades of meaning at different times of your life.
Then I got an Edward Gorey deck of cards that I didn’t know existed, The Fantod Pack, a parody of Tarot cards. I won’t be laying out the cards because all the card meanings are bad, as interpreted by Madame Groeda Weyrd, including such fortunes as cafard, inanition, catarrh, gapes, fugues, barratry, assailed honor, yaws, senseless talk, inadequate drainage, vapors, loss of ears, puckers, weltschmerz, wispiness, champerty, and megrims. Oh, and paranoia. You may not know that the noms de plume that Gorey used are anagrams of his name.
I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar by Sharon Eliza Nichols is a photographic collection of mistakes. Well, I judge the grammar, not the person, but I just can’t help editing, just as you evaluate anything that falls into your specialty, whether it’s art, cooking, fashion, music, or business management. The YEILD sign painted on concrete is one I’ve seen in my grocery store parking lot; it happens everywhere, though I’ve never seen NO PAKRING. Someone has a non-working door buzzard. In my experience, buzzards seldom work. The international apostrophe crisis could be solved if someone would remove the extraneous ones and drop them in where needed.
Conversations is a more serious book by Elizabeth Schultz, a collection of several dozen poems she wrote on works of art in the Spencer Museum of Art at The University of Kansas, which is a very fine small museum. The poems, of course, bring us into her head, more than into the paintings or sculpture or photos.
The Practical Application of Floy Floy
Bill Kauffman, in “Boulder Rocks” in the January 2010 issue of The American Conservative, writing about a debate he was in on the Constitution, digresses to an anecdote about Jack Kerouac,
who had a knack for the non sequitur to which there is no reply. He once halted the verbigeration of a strange episode of “Firing Line” [the William Buckley talk show] by barking a line from a tune by Slim & Slam: “Flat foot floogie with a floy floy.”
In another generation, Kerouac (who was a heavy drinker) could have been a stand-up comic. When I read On the Road and others of his books as a teenager and then a college student, his quasi-buddhist odyssey seemed to mean more than it does now. In my memory, the book vaguely recalls the very very long, romantic Look Homeward Angel and other books by Thomas Wolfe (not to be confused with Tom Wolfe). Note that the link here is to a publication of the original manuscript, called O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life, which is even longer than the original published edition.
I still like Kerouac but I don’t know if I could read him anymore, or Thomas Wolfe either, though I’m tempted to get O Lost (pun noted but not intended). It’s like a changing taste in art, moving from Impressionism to Japanese watercolors or Vermeer.
Not Only Legless
Mike Sykes, among other things, sent an example of “legless” meaning drunk, in a song by Andy Fairweather-Low called “Wide-Eyed and Legless”. (I like this version better than his 1975 video.)
Two Weeks of the Weekly Gizzard: Moi on Examiner.com
Merry Christmas to everyone, and especially to everyone in the armed services and to veterans. So many of the men...
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The Wish Book is fantasy-suspense-romance featuring the old Sears Roebuck catalogues. Novella.
Carl Kriegbaum Sleeps with the Corn is about a young gambler who finds himself upright in a cornfield in Kansas with his feet encased in a tub of concrete; how would you get out of a spot like that? Short story.
Still Ridge is about a young woman who moves from Boston to Appalachia and finds there are two kinds of moonshine, the good kind and the kind that can kill you. Short story.
Whither Spooning? asks whether synchronized spooning can be admitted to the 2010 Winter Olympics. Humorous sports article.
Blood, Sweat, Tears, and Cats: One woman's tale of menopause, in which I learn that the body is predictive; I perceive that I am like my cat; and I find love. Autobiographical essay.
Parvum Opus Volume I. The first year (December 2002 through 2003). You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll get PO’ed. Collection of columns.
Scot Tartans: T-shirts and more (custom orders available).
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No Pain, No Pain
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Flash in the Pants
If you're so smart why aren't you me?
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What with one thing and another, this and that, main computer down and then downer, and activities up, shopping, wrapping, mailing, working, selling, partying, I just didn’t write PO last week. I wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, or just the Happy New Year if that’s your preference. Be merry anyway. Here’s my Examiner.com Christmas piece, “Light is never wasted.”
A man called into a radio talk show last week complaining about Christmas lights. He resented his neighbors who put up lights because they use energy and they're going to destroy the planet. He even invoked the children: Christmas lights will kill our children, or destroy their future, or something to that effect. He had a mind to complain to the authorities.
He had a spiritual ancestor in one of Jessamyn West's novels about nineteenth-century Quakers, probably The Friendly Persuasion, in which the Quaker family installed gas lighting when it became the newly available technology. They had a party and invited all the neighbors in to witness this miracle as they turned on the new gas lamps. One miserable old Scroogey sort of man complained about the extravagance of using gas for light. Of course he didn't know whether gas would use more or less material than wood or candles, but he was biased against anything new or beautiful, against anything that wasn't essential to bare survival, and probably would have been satisfied to sit in the dark. He called gas lighting "the wasting away of the world." Too much light is extravagance.
This fearful and irrational feeling about energy is a kind of Puritan hangover. Environmental extremists share these tendencies with the strictest of the Puritans, at least Puritans in popular understanding: they feel more virtuous than everyone else, they want to control everyone else, and they lack trust in the universe.
Physics tells us that matter and energy may be converted but not lost. Human intelligence and creativity, not fear, can convert matter to energy and vice versa.
This fear is precisely why Christmas exists: to light up the world, to shine light in the dark corners, and to show us how to be joyful.
The near-infinite space of the Web gives us a chance to change all this [i.e. the flaws of dictionaries and thesauri]. Imagine if lexicographers were to create online resources that give, in addition to definitions, many living examples of word use, drawn not just from literature and newspapers but from real-time sources of language like Web sites, blogs and social networks. We could build people’s confidence in their ability to understand and use words naturally, from the variety of contexts in which words occur. Indeed, this is what my colleagues and I are trying to accomplish at the online dictionary Wordnik.com: we’re using text-mining techniques and the unlimited space of the Internet to show as many real examples of word use as we can, as fast as we can.
The Great Oxford English Dictionary, of course, uses examples of usage along with the definitions, but examples alone do not explain a word, even aside from the issue of “proscriptive” and “descriptive” dictionaries. For example, I looked at a random word in Wordnik, Pharmacology, and the first five usage examples were:
Antihistamine Pharmacology * Cost Management - According to drugpriceinfo. com: - — Recently Uploaded Slideshows
Participants may choose from sessions in the following tracks: Nutrition / Fitness, Emerging Science, Professional Issues, Pharmacology, and Acute Care. — Health News from Medical News Today
Dr. Badmus has a first degree in Virology from the University Of Ilorin and a Doctorate in Pharmacology, he is the founder and President of the African Center Foundation (ACF) which has over 200,000 members and is presently active in seventeen countries working in the African communities to develop local industries and primary health care. — Headlines - Inside INdiana Business with Gerry Dick
A second study in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, also appearing online in March, showed which PCBs affected brain-cell circuits in the hippocampus, a region of the brain known to be impaired in several complex neurodevelopmental disorders including autism.. — Health News from Medical News Today
Germany, 5Department of Veterinary and Comparative Anatomy, Pharmacology, and Physiology, — innovations-report
If you had no idea what the word might mean, say if you were just learning English and did not speak a European language and had no scientific vocabulary, or if you were ten years old, you might possibly guess that it had something to do with health and possibly drugs, from the context. You might guess correctly, or you might think it had something to do with animal drugs (pharm = farm) or drugs made from cola. But Wordnik had no actual definition until the twelfth example in the list. Also, the random word was capitalized, which brought up a different set of examples than the lower case word, thus all the journal names. If you don’t know right off the bat that the idea is “knowledge of drugs” then you waste a lot of time. What’s the problem with learning that “logy” means knowledge or science, and “pharma” means drug? It’s not that hard.
McKean and partners possibly learned to read by word shapes in elementary school, rather than by the traditional alphabet + sounds method.
As well as both and
I ran across another misuse of “as well as”, which is not equivalent to “and”; the errant sentence was structured like this:
The weather today is both gray as well as wet.
It should be:
The weather today is both gray and wet.
Itcould be:
The weather today is both gray and wet, as well as cold.
“As well as” always points to something in addition to whatever item, or series of items, form the compound phrase. “Both” and its object need to be followed by “and”.
Racial Facial Gestures
One Mr. Khoja, both victim and victimizer, was accused of making “racial facial gestures”. I like the rhyme. The race of the person he made faces at was not specified but it would be fun to guess, in the privacy of your own home, of course, while repeating “racial facial gestures” quickly ten times. Of course you will begin with your own race.
Legless in Gaza
In his book Drinking with George, actor George Wendt lists “legless” as one of the many terms for “drunk”. It’s a new one to me.
Babelfish Is Back
Beth Fridinger wondered where the Babelfish link went; she uses it for her foreign correspondence. I removed it from the end matter of Parvum Opus to make it a little shorter, not realizing that anyone really ever used Babelfish from here. Babelfish translates into a dozen languages, including two different kinds of Chinese. Now it’s back. Thanks, Beth.
The Scientific Mind
Herb Hickman, who is a scientist, wrote:
A small quibble, I guess. Not about PO, but the Gizzard CRU piece. Ellen Goodman would not be precluded from publishing in a scientific journal by virtue of not being a scientist. Nobody would be precluded on that basis. Technically, you referred to her "opinions," and of course a scientific journal doesn't want to publish ANYONE's opinions, except in a separate part of the journal and clearly labeled as an editorial. To all appearances, Ellen lacks the skills to perform any significant science work, and would likely find that an impenetrable barrier — but science per se doesn't recognize anyone's qualifications. Here's a link to one journal's guidance on author qualification: (Scroll down.)
Two Weeks of the Weekly Gizzaard: Moi on Examiner.com
This is not about jihadist threat. This is about the LA Times saying there is an increasing terrorist threat within...
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I’m publishing for the Kindle digital reader with Amazon and now also on Lulu.com for download to computer and for printing. Most of these titles are available in both locations. Search for Rhonda Keith on Amazon.com Kindle store and Lulu.com.
The Man from Scratch is about cloning, escort services, murder, and restaurants in Akron, Ohio, featuring Roxy Barbarino, writer for Adventuress Magazine. Novel.
A Walk Around Stonehaven is a travel article on my trip to Scotland. Short article with photos.(Lulu.com only.)
The Wish Book is fantasy-suspense-romance featuring the old Sears Roebuck catalogues. Novella.
Carl Kriegbaum Sleeps with the Corn is about a young gambler who finds himself upright in a cornfield in Kansas with his feet encased in a tub of concrete; how would you get out of a spot like that? Short story.
Still Ridge is about a young woman who moves from Boston to Appalachia and finds there are two kinds of moonshine, the good kind and the kind that can kill you. Short story.
Whither Spooning? asks whether synchronized spooning can be admitted to the 2010 Winter Olympics. Humorous sports article.
Blood, Sweat, Tears, and Cats: One woman's tale of menopause, in which I learn that the body is predictive; I perceive that I am like my cat; and I find love. Autobiographical essay.
Parvum Opus Volume I. The first year (December 2002 through 2003). You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll get PO’ed. Collection of columns.
Scot Tartans: T-shirts and more (custom orders available).
T-Shirts & mug: FRESH PICT, with two ancient Pictish designs
BUMPER STICKER: FRESH PICT, white on blue, with 10th Century Pict-Scot Merman Cross (blue on white also available)
SIGG WATER BOTTLE, ORGANIC T-SHIRTS IN GREAT COLORS, MINI-CAMERAS, DENIM SHIRTS, MUGS, TOTE BAGS, MOUSE PAD, TEDDY BEAR, AND MUCH MORE ATParvum Opus CafePress shop: (NOTE: There are problems viewing this site with Firefox but Earthlink seems OK.)
NEW: Click to Embiggen boxer shorts
Eschew Obfuscation bumper sticker
FRESH PICT items
Graphic covers of my books
Dulce, Utile, et Decorum (Sweet, Useful, and Proper), title of new collection of Parvum Opus, Volume I
BUMPER STICKER: Dulce, Utile, et Decorum
No Pain, No Pain
Star o’ the Bar
Veritas Vincit (Truth Conquers) with Keith clan Catti insignia
Flash in the Pants
If you're so smart why aren't you me?
PWE (Protestant Work Ethic)
I am here maternity tops
I eat dead things (doggy shirt, pet dishes, and BBQ apron)
If you don’t see exactly what you want — a particular design or text on a particular item — let me know and I’ll customize products for you.
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Trivium pursuit ~ rhetoric, grammar, and logic, or reading, writing, and reckoning: Parvum Opus discusses language, education, journalism, culture, and more. Parvum Opus by Rhonda Keith is a publication of KeithOps / Opus Publishing Services. Editorial input provided by Fred Stephens. Rhonda Keith is a long-time writer, editor, and English teacher. Back issues from December 2002 may be found at http://www.geocities.com/keithops/; 2009 issues are at http://cafelit.blogspot.com.. Feel free to e-mail me with comments or queries. The PO mailing list is private, never given or sold to anyone else. If you don't want to receive Parvum Opus, please e-mail, and I'll take you off the mailing list.Copyright Rhonda Keith 2009. Parvum Opus or part of it may be reproduced only with permission, but you may forward the entire newsletter as long as the copyright remains.
Mike Sykes explains how CamelCase is useful in programming:
The short answer is that have to think of names for things (variables, labels, files), and for clarity, which is important, one often needs more than one word, as in "last entry", "middle initial". Spaces are not allowed inside a name (except in Microsoft file names where they were a serious mistake in my view). Hyphens can be mistaken for minus signs (though they're allowed in Cobol). Underscores are on upshift* which is not only a nuisance, but they take up space as well as looking awful. So lastEntry is an easy way of making the name is easier to understand — at least as easy as last_entry. And names may be quite long; SetTitleMatchMode, ChangeButtonNames are genuine examples. The long answer is in Wikipedia.
*That extra cap is also on upshift (which we just call Shift in the US).
Remember when PC file names had to be no more than eight characters long? And no spaces.
Wikipedia says “this article calls the two alternatives upper camel case and lower camel case. Some people and organizations use the term camel case only for lower camel case.” But wouldn’t lower camel case be a broke-back camel?
Other synonyms are:
·BumpyCaps or BumpyCase
·CamelBack (or camel-back) notation
·CamelCaps
·CamelHump
·CapitalizedWords or CapWords for upper camel case in Python
·ClCl (Capital-lower Capital-lower) and sometimes ClC
·compoundNames
·HumpBack (or hump-back) notation
·InterCaps or intercapping
·InternalCapitalization
·LeadingCaps for upper camel case
·mixedCase for lower camel case in Python
·NerdCaps
·Pascal case for upper camel case
·RollerCoasterCaps
·WikiWord or WikiCase (especially in wikis)
My favorite is NerdCaps, which would make a great name for a new line of head gear.
Bad Sex in Fiction Award
A new literary contest! I didn’t know about the Bad Sex Award (at least in literature). Jonathan Littell, who won the Prix Goncourt in 2006 for The Kindly Ones, has won the Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award for the same book. This is the kind of writing that earned Littell the prize:
'I came suddenly, a jolt that emptied my head like a spoon scraping the inside of a soft-boiled egg.'
The physiology alone…
Should I have added a warning at the beginning of that paragraph? Could that passage be considered in any way adult, or conducive to lustful imaginings? You can find more at the Literary Review web site, and (warning) it is much more graphic, as they say, and also very bad writing. But could it be called pornographic when it’s so much more likely to make the reader become celibate than lustful? “Why does your god deny you this?” asks someone in one of the rejected literary samples. Because it’s lousy writing, which means lousy thinking, which makes for lousy sex. It makes one long for the old days of the line of asterisks that indicated a steamy literary interlude.
Here are some additional thoughts on phrasal verbs, which I have been calling particle verbs.
First, you can distinguish phrasal verbs from prepositional phrases by seeing how the particle behaves when reconfigured. Thus, "Up the chimney I looked" is a somewhat recognizable English sentence, but "Up the word I looked" is an absurdity. Conclusion: In "I looked up the chimney," "up" is a preposition and "up the chimney" is a prepositional phrase. But in "I looked up the word," "up" is a particle and part of a phrasal verb.
Additional proof is the pronoun placement rule. "I looked the word up" and "I looked up the word" are both recognizable English sentences. So is "I looked it up." But note that "I looked up it" is not natural English. Conclusion: In English statements, pronouns can almost always replace nouns, but often they can't if a phrasal verb is involved.
“I looked up the chimney” is also different from “I looked up Mary when I was in town”; these are idiomatic. But somehow phrases like “Up the word I looked” me of Pennsylvania Dutch (or Deutsch/German), where you might see something like “KEEP THE PAINT OFF” (wet paint)!
Herb Hickman asked this:
Do you have a name for the practice in which a verb, or verb plus its object, are repeated for the sole purpose of adding an adverb? I've come to think of it as to Five-Oh the verb, under the vague suspicion that the TV show "Hawaii Five Oh" writers invented it. "We've got to move and move fast!" "Hit 'em and hit 'em hard!" "Find it and find it fast!" Annoy him and annoy him without ceasing.
I would just call it repetition for emphasis, but perhaps there is a rhetorical term. Rich? I don’t think the Five-Oh writers invented it, but at the moment I can’t come up with earlier examples. I’m sure you’d find them in all the old cowboy movies, which I watched devotedly as a child. In fact it sounds nearly Shakespearean.
On the Radio
-///-At the end of a computer radio program: “Happy computering!” — not computing. Ordinarily I would think this is a case of using an invented verb and forgetting the perfectly good verb already available, but not so. “Computing” means either calculating, or whatever it is that the computer does faster than you do. “Computering” here means using the computer and its applications.
-///-On a radio segment discussing an odious pair of child molesters, a prosecutor said “mopery” is the correct police term for such crimes, and a “mope” is a molester. These terms are rarely used in ordinary conversation or literature, and are not found on my usual online dictionaries. Wikipedia gives them a different, more general definition. But I’d believe the police when they talk about their own words.
-///-Another crime report: A man busted for operating a meth lab faces “enhanced charges” because a child was present. “Enhanced” almost always means improved rather than increased but apparently the distinction between quality and quantity isn’t always clear with this word in some people’s minds, and indeed a greater penalty can seem like a better penalty.
Christmas Books
Tim Bazzett writes:
Just wanted to let you know that all of my books at RatholeBooks.com have been drastically reduced in price for the holidays. Please click on the website for details. If you want any of the books for Christmas, you must order soon. All four books are also available on Amazon, but not at these prices, and all books ordered direct from RatholeBooks will be personally inscribed and signed.
Hope you all have a wonderful holiday season.
All the best,
Wa…?
A former student of mine from an African country I don’t recall wrote this on his Facebook page (not to me):
wa gaa lolou moom wakh nanou ko koi: dereum ak dereum moom noo meneu andd. Wa nii nakk nioom niooy niann?
He also speaks English and French. I don’t know what this language is and there’s no online translator for it. It seems to have been a comment on a photo of three rather glamorous young African women. Intriguing.
Remember Pearl
Today is Pearl Harbor Day. After WWII, my dad returned from the South Pacific after a few years on the aircraft carrier Intrepid, and brought home some souvenirs, one of which was a doll-sized pair of underpants imprinted with “Remember Pearl.”
In a letter to the editor in today’s Cincinnati Enquirer, the writer insisted that the government has no...
President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez has doubts about whether or not Idi Amin of Uganda was really so bad. Was he...
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ONLINE PUBS
I’m publishing for the Kindle digital reader with Amazon and now also on Lulu.com for download to computer and for printing. Most of these titles are available in both locations. Search for Rhonda Keith on Amazon.com Kindle store and Lulu.com.
The Man from Scratch is about cloning, escort services, murder, and restaurants in Akron, Ohio, featuring Roxy Barbarino, writer for Adventuress Magazine. Novel.
A Walk Around Stonehaven is a travel article on my trip to Scotland. Short article with photos.(Lulu.com only.)
The Wish Book is fantasy-suspense-romance featuring the old Sears Roebuck catalogues. Novella.
Carl Kriegbaum Sleeps with the Corn is about a young gambler who finds himself upright in a cornfield in Kansas with his feet encased in a tub of concrete; how would you get out of a spot like that? Short story.
Still Ridge is about a young woman who moves from Boston to Appalachia and finds there are two kinds of moonshine, the good kind and the kind that can kill you. Short story.
Whither Spooning? asks whether synchronized spooning can be admitted to the 2010 Winter Olympics. Humorous sports article.
Blood, Sweat, Tears, and Cats: One woman's tale of menopause, in which I learn that the body is predictive; I perceive that I am like my cat; and I find love. Autobiographical essay.
Parvum Opus Volume I. The first year (December 2002 through 2003). You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll get PO’ed. Collection of columns.
Scot Tartans: T-shirts and more (custom orders available).
T-Shirts & mug: FRESH PICT, with two ancient Pictish designs
BUMPER STICKER: FRESHPICT, white on blue, with 10th Century Pict-Scot Merman Cross (blue on white also available)
SIGG WATER BOTTLE, ORGANIC T-SHIRTS IN GREAT COLORS, MINI-CAMERAS, DENIM SHIRTS, MUGS, TOTE BAGS, MOUSE PAD, TEDDY BEAR, AND MUCH MORE ATParvum Opus CafePress shop: (NOTE: There are problems viewing this site with Firefox but Earthlink seems OK.)
NEW: Click to Embiggen boxer shorts
FRESHPICT items
Graphic covers of my books
Dulce, Utile, et Decorum (Sweet, Useful, and Proper), title of new collection of Parvum Opus, Volume I
BUMPER STICKER: Dulce, Utile, et Decorum
No Pain, No Pain
Star o’ the Bar
Veritas Vincit (Truth Conquers) with Keith clan Catti insignia
Flash in the Pants
If you're so smart why aren't you me?
PWE (Protestant Work Ethic)
I am here maternity tops
I eat dead things (doggy shirt, pet dishes, and BBQ apron)
If you don’t see exactly what you want — a particular design or text on a particular item — let me know and I’ll customize products for you.
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Trivium pursuit ~ rhetoric, grammar, and logic, or reading, writing, and reckoning: Parvum Opus discusseslanguage, education, journalism, culture, and more. Parvum Opus by Rhonda Keith is a publication of KeithOps / Opus Publishing Services. Editorial input provided by Fred Stephens. Rhonda Keith is a long-time writer, editor, and English teacher. Back issues from December 2002 may be found at http://www.geocities.com/keithops/; 2009 issues are at http://cafelit.blogspot.com.. Feel free to e-mail me with comments or queries. The PO mailing list is private, never given or sold to anyone else. If you don't want to receive Parvum Opus, please e-mail, and I'll take you off the mailing list.Copyright Rhonda Keith 2009. Parvum Opus or part of it may be reproduced only with permission, but you may forward the entire newsletter as long as the copyright remains.
