Slog - Comments on Reading Tonight http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_tonight_42 If you're into very specific things, like body image, nibbling, or quibbling with grammar, there might be something going on that would interest you in readings tonight. Otherwise, it could be a night to stay home. Up at Third Place, Patrick Carman is reading from Saving Mr. Nibbles, which is a children's book. Bainbridge Island is hosting its second annual poetry slam. Also, June Casagrand is at the University Bookstore with Mortal Syntax, which is a book whose subtitle reads: 101 Language Choices That Will Get You Clobbered by the Grammar Snobs--Even If You're Right. This is an interesting... Copyright 2008 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:16:02 -0800 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:54:15 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by elenchos It's much better grammar to hyperlink the noun itself rather than "here". Click here, click there, go here... it's all a lot of wasted verbage. Or maybe it's better style, not better grammar.

Full readings calendar.

The only people who don't know you're supposed to click on it are not using the Internet anyway.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_tonight_42#c992922 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_tonight_42#c992922 Books Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:57:44 -0800 Comment by Paul Constant @elenchos,

You know, it never really occurred to me. I realize I overuse the "here," but that's because it's the easiest way for me to use the link in a full sentence. I think the "Full readings calendar" thing you describe comes off as brusque. But I'll think on it.

]]> Paul Constant http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_tonight_42#c992941 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_tonight_42#c992941 Books Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:06:49 -0800 Comment by elenchos Oh, just say: The full readings calendar has all the details.

Or: The full readings calendar awaits you.

Or: Kind sir or madam, do be so good as honor us with a moment of your time devoted to the full readings calendar, offered for your edification and enrichment by your humble servant, Pl. Constant, Esq., OBE.

Anything but click here.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_tonight_42#c992971 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_tonight_42#c992971 Books Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:21:50 -0800 Comment by Grammar Marm Casagrand as great: it should be a funny, languagey event.

Language snobs come in two varieties: those who can substantiate language "rules" with some understanding of grammar and linguistics and those cannot, and the latter are the primary target of Casagrand's humor.

]]> Grammar Marm http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_tonight_42#c993263 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_tonight_42#c993263 Books Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:51:39 -0800 Comment by Kristin Bell I think most people who quibble about grammar and take it seriously are those who have never taken a linguistics course. Just a theory.

]]> Kristin Bell http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_tonight_42#c993268 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_tonight_42#c993268 Books Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:54:15 -0800