Diagramming for dummies
Oct 1, 2008 Medialites, Politics and Poker, Stragety
Slate Magazine is diagramming Sarah Palin’s sentences, and concludes — surprise! — she’s a doofus.
Scanning this article (it is not worth more than a scan), what is remarkable is that despite being one of the best all-around destinations on the Internet for good, insightful writing, when it comes to politics Slate remains utterly unselfconscious in its bias.
October 1st, 2008 at 10:37 pm
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October 1st, 2008 at 11:17 pm
I wonder exactly where she would place all the stutterings and umms of Obama. He rambles as much or more than anyone in the public spotlight.
Did she take the edited answers or did she go to the original and make sure to use the actual verbiage of Mrs. Palin? What an elitist.
I love to diagram sentences but have never thought of doing it to use as a weapon.
October 2nd, 2008 at 8:58 am
Agreed, Ron.
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:49 am
Ron,
i have to admit, initially i was all huffing. “that Ron, sees a conspiracy in everything!! what’s wrong with this article??” but i’ve reflected on it a moment and i’ve gotta say i’m with you on this one. as elizabeth reid pointed out at DW, few people’s speech patterns lend themselves to diagrammed sentences. leave aside whether it’s the height of pedantry to diagram someone’s written sentences, it approaches the absurd to do the same to someone’s spoken dialog.