DFW violently annoys me once more

Dec 06, 2009 15:23

Over at Language Log - and I warn you, I can feel my anger levels rising already as I start to write about this - there is a link to a so-called "Grammar Test" devised by David Foster Wallace when he was running college workshops. It fills me with fury more than I can really express. It's a list of ten sentences, each containing one crucial ( Read more... )

idiocy, writers, language

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surrealkitten December 27 2009, 14:12:36 UTC
So, because I have a short attention span, I read the CAPS TEXT OOO INTERESTING OOO first and then did the quiz, without the declaimer, and i almost cried, man.

Use caps wisely! You could dampen the mood of lazy intellectuals!

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