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In the New Yorker...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on June 21, 2019, 04:29:26 pm ---I wonder why they call them omnibus editions? ??? Isn't omnibus the real, full name for a public transportation "bus"? ???
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According to the internet, that usage is dated.
--- Quote ---om·ni·bus
/ˈämnəˌbəs/
noun
1.
a volume containing several novels or other items previously published separately.
"an omnibus of her first trilogy"
2.
DATED
a bus.
adjective
1.
comprising several items.
"Congress passed an omnibus anticrime package"
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"Omni-" means "all; of all things," as in omnipresent or omniscient. They must have called it omnibus because compared to a car it seemed huge at first and able to hold all, but once they got used to them they just called it bus.
Jeff Wrangler:
The June 24 issue finally arrived in yesterday's post. The articles about Elizabeth Warren and Boris Johnson look interesting.
I've read Anthony Lane's reviews of The Dead Don't Die and A Bigger Splash.
I can't believe he wrote, in his review of A Bigger Splash, "[W]hen Hockney examines his Proktor portrait, he does so with the aid of a lighter's flame, and the scene ignites."
:laugh:
Front-Ranger:
I could easily spend the summer reading articles about the perfect summer reading. Here's one:
https://lithub.com/20-perfect-summer-books-for-this-and-every-year/
I'm curiously what you all think about this list. I saw a couple of books I'd like to read.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on June 22, 2019, 02:15:41 pm ---I could easily spend the summer reading articles about the perfect summer reading. Here's one:
https://lithub.com/20-perfect-summer-books-for-this-and-every-year/
I'm curiously what you all think about this list. I saw a couple of books I'd like to read.
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I've only read one of them: Sophie's Choice. I've read other books by about six of the authors (Jennifer Egan, Elizabeth Gilbert, Michael Ondaatje) and someone once gave me Angle of Repose. Most of the others I haven't heard of, but the excerpts from their reviews are enticing. The one I'm most likely to read is Sally Rooney's Normal People, because I've heard such good things about that from many normal people.
southendmd:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on June 22, 2019, 08:16:51 am ---
"Omni-" means "all; of all things," as in omnipresent or omniscient. They must have called it omnibus because compared to a car it seemed huge at first and able to hold all, but once they got used to them they just called it bus.
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"Omnibus" is the dative plural case of "omnis" (all) in Latin, so it means "for all". Initially it was the French "voiture omnibus": carriage for all.
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