Well I thought that since I haven't written anything for a few days I would add to the short list of previous posts. However I haven't anything specific to write about...
I just noticed that when I'm typing I don't capitalize any of my "I"s. And I'm 100% sure that once school starts I'm going to hand in an essay with all lower case "i"s in words like "I" and "I'm" and "I'll". And reading through this (yea I proofread my blogs) I noticed that since all these "I"s are now capitalized, I seem to stress them more. Like, I seem to pause a split second at the capital "I" and then say the word louder and longer than I normally would. Yea, apparently the lazy internet way of writing has not only made me forget grammar and spelling, but has made reading become awkward. Stupid ICQ. "uh oh".
For people that read: I've been reading this book called Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton. Read it. He may have been the greatest writer of the entire 20th century. (Philosopher in the early 1900's, "this was the man who wrote a book called The Everlasting Man, which led a young atheist named C.S. Lewis to become a Christian. This was the man who wrote a novel called The Napoleon of Notting Hill, which inspired Michael Collins to lead a movement for Irish Independence. This was the man who wrote an essay in the Illustrated London News that inspired Mohandas Gandhi to lead a movement to end British colonial rule in India.")
8 comments:
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don't worry jon. you probably won't be talking about yourself much at university. you're just a number to them. you'll msotly be saying things like, napoleon lost at waterloo, not I think napoleon lost at waterloo...what am i talking about
true. good call.
actually ya. ur never supposed to have any indication of yourself in papers. like you use "one" a lot, or the lesser "we." never "i."
but ya. when the hell did quiet jon get all philosophical and deep and intellectual??
i guess that shows how well i know the jon... sorry... but i mean, for goodness sakes, why don't you talk if you actually have interesting/intelligent things to say???
p.s. there's no "e" in my name... but thanks for the plug ;)
Tracy: it's true that if you knew more than my name you might know that;)
S.T.: okay
well... it's hard to learn more than someone's name when they don't really talk :p.
i guess i haven't initiated any conversations so maybe it's my fault... or maybe it's because quiet people make me feel uncomfortable cause i don't understand why they don't talk more and then i just act like an awkward retard. haha.
hahaha. yea, retard.
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