Language of AtD

rich richard.romeo at gmail.com
Thu Nov 23 11:49:31 CST 2006


I'm done with the first section--it is a lovable burst of verbiage to get
lost in; got the be-bop flips, goofy pratfalls, learned musings on the
concrete and the abstract, in short a very mature writer at work
it's less zany but still crazy
fuck the critics and their War

rich

On 11/23/06, Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
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> On Nov 23, 2006, at 12:04 PM, Ya Sam wrote:
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> > I'm still waiting for my copy to arrive, but I would like to know
> > from those already reading it about the difficulty of the language,
> > is it something that would keep you consulting OED every now and
> > then (like GR and M&D) or is it less difficult (Lot 49
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> Very easy if you're a native speaker and an American.
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> Much that is non-standard English and folksy however.
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> A lot of it sounds like Zoyd Wheeler.
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