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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on July 03, 2014, 08:59:43 am ---A New Yorker convention that is maddening sometimes is their rule about writing out numbers, even big numbers like two thousand nine hundred and fifty two. It makes reading (or writing) an article about economics nearly impossible!
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I agree. What's up with that? In fact, I was thinking exactly the same thing when I was typing nineteen-nineties in the Tarrantino quote in my last post--and that's nearly as bad as your example.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on July 03, 2014, 08:59:43 am ---A New Yorker convention that is maddening sometimes is their rule about writing out numbers, even big numbers like two thousand nine hundred and fifty two. It makes reading (or writing) an article about economics nearly impossible!
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"I agree," serious crayons, who was born in one thousand nine hundred and fifty seven and is very coöperative, says.
P.S., my spellcheck objects to coöperate, though not to cooperate. Though what does it know? It also objects to spellcheck.
Front-Ranger:
Thanks for the laugh serious!
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on July 03, 2014, 08:59:43 am ---A New Yorker convention that is maddening sometimes is their rule about writing out numbers, even big numbers like two thousand nine hundred and fifty two. It makes reading (or writing) an article about economics nearly impossible!
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Shock! I violated one of my own rules, calling it "their convention" instead of "its convention". I don't want The New Yorker (or any business) to get the idea that it is a person!!
Front-Ranger:
I feel the need to apologize personally to Al Franken! ::) Moving on...
It's interesting to contrast the Linklater article to the book review of a Stephen Crane biography by Caleb Crain (relation? I think not) in the same issue. The book review is the better written, IMO, and skips along merrily, pulling the reader effortlessly with it. In contrast, one must plod through the Linklater profile. I think part of the problem is that the author, Nathan Heller, overreached, and tried to quote too many people in the piece. It results in an overlong article with too many quotes. Did he think he must include at least one quote from each person he interviewed? You can usually tell when someone had fun writing something and these two articles illustrate that.
The Crane review is quite an eye-opener! Never realized what a revolutionary person he was. Like America's Byron.
Jeff Wrangler:
Here's something that was interesting to me.
Early in Nathan Heller's article about San Francisco (July 7 & 14), he quotes an activist named Tommi Avicolli Mecca. Well, two decades ago, Tommi Avicolli Mecca lived here in Philadelphia, where he was also an activist (involved with Act-Up, if I remember correctly) and worked for the Philadelphia Gay News.
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