Unstressed » funny http://linebreak.org/blog A weblog from the editors of Linebreak Sun, 08 May 2011 07:06:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 An Objection to Form http://linebreak.org/blog/2009/05/06/an-objection-to-form/ http://linebreak.org/blog/2009/05/06/an-objection-to-form/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 21:30:29 +0000 Ashley http://linebreak.org/blog/?p=811 alchaic-google1

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National Poetry Month card #3 | Via Negativa.

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“Carl Sandburg wrote me from Chicago, ‘It’s hell when poets can’t afford to buy each other’s books.’” 

- Ezra Pound in “A Retrospect” 

]]> http://linebreak.org/blog/2009/02/21/agreed/feed/ 0 The various. The sundry. (Ed. 2) http://linebreak.org/blog/2009/01/23/the-various-the-sundry-ed-2/ http://linebreak.org/blog/2009/01/23/the-various-the-sundry-ed-2/#comments Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:35:29 +0000 Johnathon Williams http://linebreak.org/blog/?p=566
  • I haven’t worked just one job since, well, never, but Tina Brown reports that now even the upper-middle class are finding themselves in the gig economy. (Do writers without tenure ever work just one job?) Favorite new economic phrase: “The Nut.”
  • Note to self: learn to say no.
  • As other magazines struggle to survive, Cook’s Illustrated is thriving. (via 37 Signals)
  • A pulp fiction cover gallery from Hang Fire Books, including such classics as Love Addict and Gutter Girl. The Hang Fire Books blog describes the life an independent, specialty bookseller.
  • The Book Cover Archive, a collection of cover designs and designers. (via Daring Fireball)
  • Joe the Plumber (yes, that Joe the Plumber) files his first report as a war correspondent.
  • And just for fun: “It comes at you in waves.” — Man eats world’s hottest pepper.
    • ]]>     http://linebreak.org/blog/2009/01/23/the-various-the-sundry-ed-2/feed/ 0     “Metre is crucial” http://linebreak.org/blog/2008/10/15/metre-is-crucial/ http://linebreak.org/blog/2008/10/15/metre-is-crucial/#comments Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:22:41 +0000 Johnathon Williams http://linebreak.org/blog/?p=233 Restaurant critic Giles Coren takes his editors at The Guardian to task for an edit that causes his piece to end on an unstressed syllable, among other things:

    And worst of all. Dumbest, deafest, shittest of all, you have removed the unstressed “a” so that the stress that should have fallen on “nosh” is lost, and my piece ends on an unstressed syllable. When you’re winding up a piece of prose, metre is crucial. Can’t you hear? Can’t you hear that it is wrong? It’s not fucking rocket science. It’s fucking pre-GCSE scansion. I have written 350 restaurant reviews for The Times and i have never ended on an unstressed syllable. Fuck. fuck, fuck, fuck.

    GCSE stands for General Certificate of Secondary Education, which is kind-of-sort-of-not-really the UK’s equivalent of a high school diploma.

    Ah, to live in a nation where that level of verbal sophistication is expected of a high school education.

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