I just realized that I have a really boring blog.
I mean it.
My blog is really ineffably dull.
I realized this while I was reading someone else's blog, and hers was witty and intelligent & keen and many other synonomous adjectives that I am currently too dumb to think of. And also I end sentences with prepositions.
Aw, HECK. And shucks, and GOSH DARN IT! I'm tired of being dull and witless and lackluster and all that jazz (or rather lack of jazz). I want to be intelligent and read great literature and carry on pithy and startlingly observant conversations with other people who are just as fabulously brilliant as I am.
Unfortunately, I believe I lack the nack.
Alas.
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If it counts for anything, I like reading your blog. I like the way your write...you write in such a personal way. I don't even know you, and yet I think I can hear you talking. And I like that.
It's me, isn't it? It's okay, you can tell me :P
Er, anonymous = Libby.
Also, not ending sentences with prepositions is a prescriptive convention. Prescriptivism, boo hiss!
Libby
Holy--HOW DID YOU KNOW???
You see, I was reading your blog, and I just thought how very amazingly well-read and well-spoken (erm--or 'written,' I guess) you all were. I mean ALL of you! (You + commenters--I don't mean to suggest that you have multiple personality disorder...) And I just felt, you know, unworthy. :^P :^)
Okay. I will get over my inferiority complex someday... :^)
P.S. And I totally agree with you about perscriptivism. I was just in a bad place, and WAY too worried about what perscriptivists would think about me. Good thing I'm currently OUT of the bad place...for now...
And Lindsay, BLESS you. I enjoy reading your blog too! Oh, and off I go to do so! :^)
Amen to the anti-prescriptivists!!! Can you imagine the alternative?: "The person to whom I was talking. The place to which I was going." Eew. Something inside just cringes at the thought.
Oh, and not to seem unoriginal, but I really like your blog, too. :) Anyone who can use "lackluster" in context is anything BUT lackluster.
Thanks, Kim. And hurrah! Down with The Machine! And The Man! And...erm...gears...and stuff... Especially perscriptivism!
And thanks for the vote of confidence too. I do appreciate it.
(However, if you'd heard Johnny Davenport using "lackluster" in his speech to the Car-shaped-candy makers Union of America, I'm pretty sure you'd see how people can use the word "lackluster" and DEFINITELY be lackluster themselves. Poor ol' Johnny.)
I will concede that there are exceptions to every rule. However, since you also used "ineffably" and "pithy" (a personal favorite of mine), I think it's safe to say you aren't one of them.
NOT boring Beth! It's my new "Happy place!"
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