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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on May 03, 2021, 05:27:32 pm ---Buttons are extremely easy to sew on, though kind of a bother and I never seem to get around to it. They're practically the way you'd think from looking at them. There are a couple of other little tricks but a YouTube tutorial or even a 10-step written list would make you an expert in no time.
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Oh, I manage to sew on buttons. I've done shirts and trousers and even a sport coat. The job just doesn't turn out very nice. You probably wouldn't believe the bird's nest of thread I end up with on the "back side." It holds, but it isn't very neat.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on May 03, 2021, 10:55:22 pm ---Oh, I manage to sew on buttons. I've done shirts and trousers and even a sport coat. The job just doesn't turn out very nice. You probably wouldn't believe the bird's nest of thread I end up with on the "back side." It holds, but it isn't very neat.
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Well, at least it's on the back. But that's where a YouTube tutorial might help.
Jeff Wrangler:
I managed to push through the article on North Korean hacking (April 26 and May 3), but at least I came across one phrase that made me very happy. The author discusses an event known as the International Collegiate Programming Contest, which he then describes as "a festival of unsurpassed and joyful nerdery."
"Nerdery?"
:D
(I also recommend the Talk of the Town piece about weed psychics in Maine.)
Jeff Wrangler:
Let's play a little game: Rewrite The New Yorker sentence.
This is from the May 10 article about Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland. Here's the original:
"'Nicola was probably one of the few who was able to,' Shona Robison, a former S.N.P. Cabinet secretary, who has known both politicians for thirty years, said."
I think there are lots of ways this could be done, for example, using a semicolon, or even breaking it into two sentences.
"'Nicola was probably one of the few who was able to,' Shona Robison said. A former S.N.P. Cabinet secretary, Robison has known both politicians for thirty years."
Front-Ranger:
Yes, that convoluted type of sentence structure where they introduce the speaker, tells why he/she is relevant, and quote them, is tiring, to say the least.
I noticed this in the recent UFO article. It seems to be one quote after another, all structured in the same tortured way.
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