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...Latin is beautiful. I prefer a world that is imagined in Latin—in its myths, syntax, and poetry...
...Latin is beautiful. I prefer a world that is imagined in Latin—in its myths, syntax, and poetry...
...styles, many purposes. Sometimes its only ambition is to vilify. Robert Burns once let fly at a critic in these terms: "Thou eunuch of language; thou butcher . . . thou arch-heretic in pronunciation, thou pitch-pipe of affected emphasis . . . thou pimp of gender . . . thou scape-gallows from the land of syntax." On and on he went...
Blair and her deputies, Judy Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman and Eleanor Edgar, along with 19 copyreaders, check every article for grammar, syntax and usage. Some common errors: confusing who and whom, which and that, and homonyms like horde/hoard; mismatched subjects and verbs, as in "One out of five deaths were . . ." (the subject is one); and dangling modifiers like "Winner of the Nobel Prize, her neighbors did not know . . ." (the neighbors...
...examination of the ways in which the viewer’s interaction with the piece—the physical process of viewing—influenced its meaning. Many architects took a more linguistic or structuralist approach, examining the ways in which meaning is generated by the structure or syntax of architecture. Structuralist interpretation is analogous to diagramming a sentence; one focuses not on the semantic meaning of the whole (what the sentence actually “means” in the traditional sense) but on the structural relationships of various parts that allow the whole to mean anything...