tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post446815161129016670..comments2023-10-31T07:32:11.739-04:00Comments on Wormtalk and Slugspeak: Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07566889846240013567noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post-72966009274590227862007-10-12T11:07:00.000-04:002007-10-12T11:07:00.000-04:00Highly Eccentric, I just don't think that cuts it....Highly Eccentric, I just don't think that cuts it. <I>Real</I> nastiness is like this:<BR/><BR/>"I am sitting in the smallest room in my house. Your book is before me. Soon it will be behind me."John Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11452247999156925669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post-5291648695748789262007-09-24T21:49:00.000-04:002007-09-24T21:49:00.000-04:00Au contraire- academic snark is alive and well. Or...Au contraire- academic snark is alive and well. Or at least, it was in 1970 . May I offer Bolton's fabulously narky review of Payne's <I>King Alfred and Boethius</I>:<BR/><BR/><I>This is a curiously thin book. The argument proper, following the introduction, comprises hardly more than 40,000 words; and given that constructions like 'the fact that Alfred failed' could be rewritten as 'Alfred's failure' on every page, it could have been still shorter without loss of content. The footnotes are few; there is no bibliography; the index does not mention secondary sources (nor, for that matter, such central topics to the discussion as 'Wisdom'). With suitable editing, the book could well have been an article.</I><BR/><BR/>now, that's just nasty. But yet... so very amusing.highlyeccentrichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14049193555531624608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post-46688171861734083512007-09-20T13:22:00.000-04:002007-09-20T13:22:00.000-04:00Another possible problem with Skeat: he was an imp...Another possible problem with Skeat: he was an implacable and vociferous opponent of women being granted degrees by Cambridge, a leader of the anti- movement, indeed. I find that side of the old curmudgeon somewhat difficult to take to.Chris Abramhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04362672452898671849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post-5423977230527550652007-09-18T13:49:00.000-04:002007-09-18T13:49:00.000-04:00The book is online at Google Books, scanned from a...The book is <A HREF="http://books.google.com/books?id=0roCAAAAIAAJ" REL="nofollow">online at Google Books</A>, scanned from a 1887 first-edition copy at Stanford that was bequeathed to them by George Hempl, a Professor of Germanic Philology there until his death in 1921. On most of the pages, you can see the fingers of the person holding the book for the scanner.<BR/><BR/>From that page, you can read the book online or download it as a (28 MB) PDF file. Because the book is in the public domain, the copy is complete.<BR/><BR/>In addition, starting on p. 583 of the PDF (p. 545 in the original pagination) is a 36-page Clarendon Press catalog as of 1887.John Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11452247999156925669noreply@blogger.com