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Thursday 28 January 2010

Pronouns


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File:Crowd in HK.JPG





Pronouns

respect

persons.






Crowd in Hong Kong
: photo by Hamedog, 2005

3 comments:

TC said...

(Click on image with respect to full view of persons etc. in it.)

Phanero Noemikon said...

these are wonderful Tom, and give me a great deal of pause, and remind me that there are compassionate interfaces at work in language
and that vigilance is never easy
in the face of our own cherished inertias, even if those inertias
were originally meant to correct other seeming inertias!

TC said...

Lanny,

I was hoping you would enjoy these. (Well, I thought that because you are... a writer!)

Indeed it seems the classic grammatical schemata would do well to include more of such compassionate interfaces.

In 1970 I wrote this poem.

THINGS TO WATCH OUT FOR IN CALIFORNIA

1. Inertia
2. Highway Patrol