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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on August 22, 2023, 06:13:37 pm ---So, interestingly, Ed is a ginger!
https://1883magazine.com/how-ed-sheeran-became-famous/
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Oh! You didn't know that?
Jeff Wrangler:
Here's an example of that TNY usage that drives me crazy.
--- Quote ---Instead, as Hunt-Hendrix later put it, "we are born into traditions, and it becomes our task to keep making sense of the world through those traditions, improving them as we go."
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Sorry, TNY, that quotation is a complete sentence. I think it should be:
--- Quote ---Instead, as Hunt-Hendrix later put it, "We are born into traditions. ...:
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You would use a lower-case w if the sentence was written:
--- Quote ---Instead, Hunt-Hendrix later put it that "we are born into traditions. ..."
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That is a relative pronoun, but then I don't know what to call the clause that begins "we are born. ..."
My go-to source, a good old-fashioned grammar book called Warriner's English Grammar and Composition, by John E. Warriner (I think I have the 1957 edition ;D ), simply says,
--- Quote ---A direct quotation begins with a capital letter.
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serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on August 23, 2023, 08:25:20 am ---Oh! You didn't know that?
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My reaction exactly!
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on August 22, 2023, 11:24:20 am ---I see that David Harbour is in the news talking about attending the Swift concert in Minneapolis. So don't count me completely out!!
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:laugh: :laugh:
Interesting that he chose to see it here. It was a BIG DEAL, dominating the news for several days. I of course did not see it, and in fact if someone mixed Taylor Swift with Beyonc? songs and held a gun to my head, I could not tell them which is which.
--- Quote ---I may not know Swift or Sheerhan, but I do know a few Strausses, Schumann, Schubert and even Satie, pretty well!
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You're way ahead of me on those S's. Almost all my knowledge of classical composers comes from piano lessons in elementary school.
Front-Ranger:
Received the new issue and I've read the memoir by Werner Herog and the book review by Adam Gopnik already. He reviews a book analyzing the Old Testament. I've been trying to get more understanding about the persecution and enslavement of the Jews and the conflicting accounts of the early kings and their antics. This gives much clarity.
Jeff Wrangler:
I enjoyed the article on monster trucks in the August 21 issue. ;D
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