Comments on: My other blog is an ejournal

By: walt

walt — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 23:01:49 +0000

Very belatedly: I just noticed that emoticon in the original post.

I don’t use emoticons. I didn’t use one here.

What I did do, apparently, was use a number followed by a right parenthesis. WordPress, in its superior wisdom, turned it into an emoticon. I think the number was “8.” I’m not going to change the post.

Which also means, no, I didn’t actually fail to close the parenthetical clause, a mistake I make often enough.

By: walt

walt — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 19:57:53 +0000

At Berkeley, Rhetoric was an interdisciplinary department, made up of faculty originally from linguistics, anthropology, and English (I think: Psychology may also have been involved). Technically, the department wasn’t renamed “Rhetoric” until the year I graduated (one semester late); until then, it was Speech–but it’s worth noting that Speech majors could not use the various public speaking and debate classes toward either the major or the degree. I was a math minor, albeit informally…

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 19:02:34 +0000

I taught Rhetoric at the University of Iowa for three years. I’m not sure anyone learned much anything, but it’s a fine subject, and it was a good excuse to reread Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” once a semester.

By: walt

walt — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 03:17:52 +0000

Thanks, Laura: I’ve fixed it (apparently you can’t link directly to a comment within the same blog…). Rhetoric, if you must know.

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 02:05:18 +0000

The second link in this post doesn’t seem to be working. I mention this only because I’m curious to know what the “major that shouldn’t exist” is (and, of course, trying to remember if I’ve ever made any broad generalizations about college majors in the course of my time as a blog commenter. . . as someone who studied ancient Greek in college, I really shouldn’t talk).

Anyway, happy blog day–and happy un-ejournal day (sort of like happy un-birthday, since I don’t believe there is a day devoted to ejournals–though I may be quite wrong).