It won’t look like that. I’ve spoken to you about this before, and I’m beginning to doubt whether you have taken it on board. Just letting things slide isn’t the way forward, young man!

Closely followed by Cillian Murphy.

RDR²

The best thing for me is that we live in an age where Amber could be handled as a TV series which would not be let down by the visuals. Just do it like the books. ‘Wake up in hospital’ has been done to death, though. That’s my first reaction. This could work well, and I love Zelazny, but don’t let Kirkman be the…

“...when a waiter goes over the night’s specials...”

“The bread is stale and the circus is abusing the animals.”

Ha! Seriously though, never think it’s not appreciated. We’ve both had absolutely idiotic leaders in the last 20 years, but our respective populaces are not that different temperamentally. I’ve lived and worked in the United States and been bowled over so many times by your hospitality. So thanks for the F-35s. (I’m…

Pretty sure that was VTOL Lambos, dude.

British Politicians use this ‘blurring’ all the time. I very much regret if I might have given anyone the impression that I may have allowed myself a blurring of the lines of ethical behaviour. Should that have been the case, I would certainly have learned some very important lessons, and I have certainly done so.

I like this being in Foxtrot Alpha. I hereby pronounce you Jason Torchoway! A piece on the US gubment’s secret autonomous stealth hypercarlaser platform, please. Or a piece on how the lack of a credible one is worrying.

Thank you! Very interesting! In ‘English English’, “mightn’t do” is also OK. In spoken ‘English English’, there seems to be developing a confusion between “might have” and “might of” - I developed my own logical conclusion as an answer to the question “Did you do it?”- “Might’ve have done.” Again, thanks.

Oh God, I can’t tell you how much I loved this. Can I write to you about how true meaning can only be found when you stop looking for meaning? I thought about a tree today... when I nourish it with my nightsoil do you think the gluten in my diet will harm it?.... honestly, I’m ready for this.

Well, I’d prefer for consistency ‘not that a big deal’ which no-one uses, because ‘not such a big deal’ seems fine - but ‘not such big a deal’ does not. But I take your point anyway. There’s a fairly arbitrary flip there. Idioms are odd.

To be honest, my real opinion is that if all the information-content is delivered without loss, whether in patois, argot, dialect or text speak, then however you have chosen to deliver it, it is fit for purpose. But with written language, as we all know, changing the position of a comma can radically change the…

“What the hell is brimstone?”

Not really. One is grammar, the other usage. Look:

Most Americans don’t know that ‘irregardless’ isn’t a real word, and that the phrase ‘that big a deal’ doesn’t require the word ‘of’ anywhere near it, let alone slap-bang in the middle. Irregardless, I shouldn’t make that big of a deal about it. Fuck it, Imma throw some shaed at Clover anyway.

This seems more to me like two people who have backed each other into a correspondence corner. The sort of corner where you have to spend five minutes on wikipedia so you can begin your next sentence with ‘You know how in The Seventh Seal...’ Then your correspondent has to spend five minutes on wikipedia so they can…

I have precisely as much empathy for them as they do for me.

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