

Also, I'm pretty aware that it's inevitable and that I contribute to it. I dunno, semantic shift doesn't solely rely on people's laziness. You undoubtedly participate in this process as well. It's a function of how we learn language and is never going to go away. You phrased it very negatively-but it is unavoidable and the language(s) you speak is the result of this process occurring over and over again since language evolved.

The last three minutes of Smith's funeral will take approximately forty-five minutes in real time, depending on how many fouls the eulogists have available to give.Thankfully, we are living in a golden age where there are so many artists and access to them so easy, that I'm finding stuff I love all the time.Īnyway, I'm not a huge fan of all of SY's output but I think Schizophrenia is a legit classic. I want to like it because so many people seem to love Neil Young and I love to love stuff. I like a few songs but I think it just doesn't speak to me. But if that caustic warble and weeping fragmented psych guitar don't grab you by the very viscera, it may be a lost cause indeed. josher, stereogum does a pretty decent worst-to-best walkthrough of the NY catalog, if you're so inclined.
#Crank yankers oops i crapped my pants song tv
I know TV journalism is mostly just infotainment but I'm an idealist and I wanted someone to rise above it. I liked Brian Williams a lot, but I can't really explain why I did.Usually when celebrities fuck up, they absolve themselves with a six-week stint in rehab.Let me guess, it's a cross between Mad Max and Waterworld? (That seems reasonable, considering climate change and oil depletion.).

Putting him on a continuum with those people is a needlessly vicious way of saying "This dude needs a better hobby." He's making small, subtle changes without making a big deal of how dumb those "comprised of" people are. Sometimes it makes it worse in larger ways, such as when educational programs aimed to help children who speak non-standard dialects become needlessly controversial and are stopped.īut this guy - this WikiGnome who is the subject of this post - isn't doing those things. Sometimes it makes it worse in small ways, such as when people derail an internet comment thread by criticizing someone's grammar. But yeah, I will agree with languagehat that the ideology that drives this kind of pedantry makes the world worse.
