Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

Activity

You added a vocabulary term
9 years, 4 months ago

homily

Homiletically speaking, the only difference between the Prescriptivists and the Descriptivists is that the latter’s got a bigger choir.

—p.121 Authority and American Usage (66) by David Foster Wallace
notable
You added a note
9 years, 4 months ago

ad hominem

If for any reason you happen to find yourself sharing this particular student’s perceptions and reaction, I would ask that you bracket your feelings just long enough to recognize that the PWM instructor’s very modern rhetorical dilemma in that office was not much different from the dilemma faced by…

—p.117 Authority and American Usage (66) by David Foster Wallace
You added a section
9 years, 4 months ago
You added a vocabulary term
9 years, 4 months ago

surfeit

a rather irksome surfeit of quotation marks

silicon jest analogue - email quotations

—p.88 Authority and American Usage (66) by David Foster Wallace
notable