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button all you need to do to activate your account is to sign the privileges and obligations page and push send your credit card account will be automatically migrated from your updated account profile there ll be a few simple additional questions regarding the median price range and frequency request then once we ve approved your application you ll begin receiving parcels immediately and your credit card will be automatically charged without your having to take any additional actions in the past online customers had to go through the laborious and time consuming process of scrolling through endless lists and irritating advertisements to actually locate the things they want now all that is in the past now your pre selected items will be automatically selected for you based on your digital profile and we guarantee satisfaction if for any reason you decide you don t want the item simply go online and fill out the special pre set declination form posted by curtis faville at 5 42 pm no comments saturday march 20 2021 memory the past is a map we are flying over we can see the countryside the towns where we lived the houses the roads the unfolding contours of surface we can see everything with perfect perspective and controlled regard but we can t land posted by curtis faville at 10 26 am no comments sunday february 28 2021 welcome to gonnawannaland much of the verbiage we hear emanates from the media radio television the movies the press the internet public address the media in turn reflects the linguistic habits of the general population you would think that media outlets such as television and radio would be self conscious about what they project and that might once have been true as standard bearers of a level of speech and grammar performance you might think media would take some responsibility for its mandates but you d be wrong once upon a time purveyors of news and information in america would have understood that talking down to its audience was cheap pandering that audiences might see that as a form of condescension but in today s media world the news and information media have dropped all pretense of standards and are happy to share the slack jawed complacence of commonplace exchange the passivity of the vulgate at any given time people are likely to employ short handles of language which propagate like viruses in everyday talk here is a sampling of such phrases words and slang which have become habitual in the media have to say this is a phrase which is inserted whenever the speaker wants to signal a sense of reluctance in insisting that their sentiment is somehow necessary or feels a mandate in expressing it as if the speaker had no choice or was slightly embarrassed to have to say it it s an expedient caution or flag of presumption that i find offensive and tiresome just sayin this phrase is also an apologetic shield to protect the speaker from being perceived as too declarative or wants to be forgiven for expressing their position its slanginess i find objectionable and should never be used that said a short hand for having said that i don t know when this slick little handle entered the vulgate but it s become nearly universal in its use people use it as a transition phrase to lend a sense of authority or justification to what they re going to say next they think it sounds sensible and authoritative but it just sounds naive and pretentious feel like this phrase appeared a few years back and it s become universal people of every persuasion and degree of sophistication use it freely most often in place of i feel or i think or i sense it seems to constitute a form of evasion or fake modesty that the speaker is unwilling to take full responsibility for an assertion or reaction and instead distance themselves from that responsibility by claiming to have a feeling that is like a feeling one could have or may have or is simply too vague or uncertain to say directly whenever you feel yourself about to use this phrase ask yourself whether just saying i think or i feel wouldn t be more direct and explicit than introducing the simile like to the statement do you really not quite feel or think what you are saying or is this merely a bad habit you ve picked up and are using for convenience that s a great question not just celebrities or experts but everyone in the media is now using this stupid phrase the point of asking and answering questions in public is not to enable the responder to judge the efficacy or relevance of the question but to answer the question saying that s a great question tells us nothing it may be a way of complimenting the questioner for their relevance or of admitting that the responder can t answer it it s too hard or too big a question the simplest solution is not to use this response at all since it accomplishes nothing just answer the question and drop the dumb rejoinder gonna the use of going to may be marginally acceptable in accurate speech as in a promissory or predictive sense but it s much over used and in this elided slang form gonna it s offensively familiar and should be avoided if something will happen or is likely to happen then say that it will happen not that it s gonna happen gonna wanna you can always tell when a speaker is a casual dunderhead when they use gonna wanna going to want to is awkward and even if the speaker wants to sound casual or politely condescending it tends to undercut the message it s designed to impart gonna is bad enough gonna wanna is three times worse actually i suppose in our computer age actual may be a foil for virtual as in virtual reality as opposed to reality itself but people now have become habituated to its insertion in nearly every instance in which emphasis is intended if you want to emphasize a fact or a phenomenon ask yourself if what you mean to say is actual or merely definite or definitive the actualization of something is not its importance or emphasis but its being as a physical or specific fact if you say i m actually going to do that you re not adding anything whatever to the doing except showing your inappropriate use of the word actually in addition many people mispronounce the word saying ack sha ly ignoring the t and u sounds entirely ignorance incarnate any time soon this is an entirely inaccurate and useless phrase in the language any time or soon may be used separately with some accurate comprehension but any time soon means essentially nothing any time soon might mean in an hour a day a week a month a year a decade or a century in fact it may mean all of these durations or none of them it s a stupid phrase and anyone who uses it should be flogged it is what it is cute little meaningless tautology whose inventiveness is diverting the first time you hear it but irritating whenever it reappears people think it s so charming so obvious so clever it isn t it s just dumb which i said that this is a pronoun now commonly misunderstood used in a sentence to refer to a previously mentioned thing or things it forms the subject of a subsidiary clause of which it is the subject therefore following which with that is ungrammatical since which is the subject i e it s redundant even people who have been to college seem to misunderstand this it s breathtaking going forward this is another transition phrase that people use to indicate the future it s usually unnecessary and adds nothing to the sense of the statement you could add going forward to almost any sentence about any subject and people would probably accept it why not use in future or in the future or in the coming days instead massive grammarians and anthologists may argue about this word but its clear sense is density not size it does not mean large or very large everyone says everything is massive these days a massive mistake a massive earthquake a massive stroke a massive consequence so stop they re all wrong contra ver shle the word is pronounced con tro ver see al not the other way learn it say it right it s as bad as nog ger a shun that s een aug gure a shun thank you yamiche ahnt ta pa noor entrepreneur is a delightful word of french derivation one which deserves to be pronounced correctly en tra pin err please drop that oooooor at the end sounds dumb is dumb healing healing has become another of those buzz words so fond to psychologists social activists and religious vigilantes anything wrong in the world causes hurt or injury therefore everyone must be healed i e mended bandaged cared for rested assisted made whole again whenever i hear the word healing i know the conversation has gone south into a precinct where nothing of value or intelligence can occur everybody must get stoned everybody must get healed heal thyself in regards to there s simply no excuse for the bad grammar regards the plural form of regard is commonly employed as a sign off to letters or messages as in kind regards or best regards but it is thoroughly ungrammatical to say in regards to or with regards to the correct construction is in regard to employing the singular of regard not the plural sorta and kinda these adverbial interjections are sloppy and vague to begin with but when used by otherwise intelligent speakers indicate an unwillingness to qualify a statement properly attempting to seem familiar or casual in an assertion if a thing is rather true or partially true it s probably best not to frame it as a simple statement and instead provide a qualifier with more grace these are related to feel like in that they are used to distance the speaker from responsibility for their assertion you know what usually employed like guess what to indicate emphasis but rarely effective and you know what is overused these days and it adds literally nothing to the sense to which it points it s meant to announce some degree of revelation but it s usually unnecessary or just plain inappropriate way dumb the use of way in place of very or pretty is an indication of ignorance it s become a cute slangy way of indicating a superlative but it simply signals naiveté anyone over the age of 13 who uses it should be spanked that s on me another instance of juvenile slang to say that anything is on someone is akin to saying that someone in a game of tag is it it s poor slang at best and ignorant at worst posted by curtis faville at 9 25 am no comments wednesday december 16 2020 the ball that ruth hit the ball that ruth hit went straight up and over t he centerfield wall and kept going gathering speed throwing off its cover and trailing string i t kept going into a time warp and landed in the backyard of a kid in ohio in 1928 who found it just a mass of tattered thread and cork and rubber in the grass so the kid scavenged it put it in his cigar box of strange unidentified flying objects alongside the indian arrowhead the steel penny and the other artifacts of a vanished america posted by curtis faville at 9 47 am no comments tuesday december 15 2020 the variable timepiece what kind of a mind creates an interlocking configuration such as this i suppose broken down into its subsets it s a completely logical and straightforward arrangement of parts coordinated into movements and settings and increments that exactly mark the progress of time a time piece a piece of time a device for the measure of the passage through a dimension in the digital age humans can now create electronic circuit boards that probably make this picture primitive in comparison it s just an integrated circuit made from metal and perhaps some jewels designed to move at precise divisions whose duration is in turn based on the movement of other bodies i e the earth the sun and other heavenly bodies philosophers of the past might once have thought such an instrument as being almost supernatural in its qualities just as they surely would have been astonished at the digital technology that drives our interactive techno culture today in our time science and philosophy have merged increasingly together as speculation has been overtaken by discovery and empirical proof as theoretical physics becomes more and more abstruse and even metaphysical in its implications what we think of as miracles seems more and more to resemble reality this watch mechanism is diverting to the eye but it s also a crude attempt at mimicking what has developed naturally in the universe bodies are clocks just as astronomical bodies in motion are our hearts beat at a certain rate though with constant small variations can we eventually create computers that have their own motivations and desires or are we mistaken in thinking that our free will is more than an illusion and that the mechanisms through which we exist have always been determined by the designs themselves posted by curtis faville at 9 47 am no comments sunday october 4 2020 announcing the publication of an eigner broadside the music the rooms in 1965 larry eigner published the music the rooms it was later issued as a folding broadside which of course has been out of print for many years i ve always regarded it as eigner s finest poem of some length though he wrote other poems of approximately this length poems perhaps 2 pages long this one seems particularly dense and involved un typically so given the nature of his writing style back in april 2009 i wrote at some length about this poem in a blog post here at the compass rose so i won t go on about it again the broadside was printed letterpress by richard seibert in an edition of 50 it will be given away to the friends of the compass rose others wishing to purchase a copy should contact us posted by curtis faville at 9 21 am no comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom archives may 1 october 1 march 1 february 1 december 2 october 1 august 1 july 4 june 1 may 3 april 1 march 3 february 3 january 1 december 3 november 1 september 1 august 1 july 1 may 2 march 1 january 1 december 1 november 2 october 1 september 1 july 2 june 2 may 1 april 1 march 2 february 2 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