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Did he utilize "utilize" when he could have just used "use?"
It's a pet peeve. :)

#38 | Posted by snoofy

And a worthy one.

rant

For those into the Flesch reading scales, "employ" would have the same value as "use" (one or two syllables considered the same for readability) and often works, depending on the context.

Free editing advice here. Don't trust Grammarly. I been around longer than them.

And the worst editor I ever knew could tell you the name of every tense in the book. People ask me that stuff and I say, "How the hell would I know?"

I edit mostly by ear, and no one has ever complained. And the usual "which-hunting" (see Fowler's Modern English Usage [19th c.]).

I'm doing my level best to make sure books include full sentences. "Not writing like this. Which is for idiots. Remember what my bestie said? Like my spouse for example, did I ever tell you about the time he did this at the dinner table and I created a whole chapter around it in my PhD thesis? Yeah. That One. With the chicken wings."

This is my problem with academia moving into trade publishing. They dumb it down to the point of, well, the reading level of much of America these days, but those people don't generally read self-help theology books. So why not write like periods and capital letters are signs of what's happening on the page? And your audience has a 10th-grade reading level.

I also wonder if it's social media. But unless this is considered social media, I don't know much about.

Even the drop-dead idiots when they are not drunk or fantasizing write in complete sentences.

Well, except for Babbles, and he could if he wanted to. I'm sure he does on other sites, but he chooses to play the fool here.

rant out

"Law & Politics

I Watched the Unhinged Anti-Smithsonian Congressional Hearing So You Don't Have To

Anthea Hartig keeps her cool on the stand, answering questions about ideological bias.

Yesterday's particularly noxious one, "Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian's Efforts to Reshape the Past" emerged in response to "Saving America's Story," the report released by Trump's White House Policy Council on July 4.

The document features 160 pages of grievances about the "ideological capture" of the Smithsonian Institution, claiming that it promotes a left-wing activist agenda.

Tuesday's hearing summoned Anthea Hartig, director of the National Museum of American History, to Capitol Hill to be grilled about the findings by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform."

news.artnet.com

Republicans obviously prefer the Goebbels Propaganda Agenda:

"As the Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels orchestrated a total takeover of Germany's media, arts, and culture to build blind devotion to Adolf Hitler and enforce Nazi racial ideology.

His strategic agenda relied on centralizing power, censoring opposition, and utilizing psychology to manipulate public opinion.

The Core Goals

The "Fhrer Myth": Goebbels deliberately elevated Hitler from a politician into a messianic savior figure who could do no wrong.Dehumanizing the Enemy: He ran aggressive campaigns targeting Jews, Communists, and liberals as existential threats to the German nation."

more

www.google.com

Remember, it was the Vice-President of the United States who told you that DJT is, "America's Hitler".

Next stop, Trump Station? Administration wants to rename New York's Penn Station
apnews.com

... Will President Donald Trump's name grace one of the most famous -- and sometimes maligned -- landmarks in his hometown of New York City?

The Republican administration this week urged leading U.S. Senators to rename Penn Station as it undertakes a projected $8 billion redesign of the dreary, underground Manhattan transit hub that also happens to be the busiest in the western hemisphere. ...




@#6 .. It's meaningless and has no impact. Trump still carries a big stick ...

Oh, I agree that the polls showing Pres Trump's historic disapproval ratings may have little current impact.

Emphasis on "current."

They are not going to affect Pres Trump's big stick.

But the purpose of the polls is more forward-looking than the here and now of "current.".

The polls show that voters may want a change ...

Here's one ...

Fox News Poll: Voters want major change amid economic and political discontent
www.foxnews.com

... Several findings in the latest Fox News Poll show voters are unhappy and want major change, which bodes well for Democrats in November: President Donald Trump's job approval remains near a record low, more Democrats are motivated to vote, Republicans join Democrats and independents in rating the economy negatively, and 4 in 10 voters want "dramatic" or "revolutionary" change. Plus, more view the GOP as tied to elites than the Democratic Party.

Voters say Democrats can better handle income inequality (+22 points), healthcare (+21), inflation (+10), the economy (+9), and foreign policy (+7). Republicans hold the advantage on crime (+7 points), while government spending (Democrats +3) and national security (R +2) are more evenly divided. On immigration, the GOP had an 8-point edge in April. Now, Democrats are preferred by one point. ...



But how all that view change affects the outcome in November is, well, subject to the gerrymandering that Pres Trump has ordered to occur.


@#6 ... You can reject most if not all of what the GOP is doing but still stay far from socialism. ...

While I may not have a disagreement with that comment, I also note what the GOP seems currently to be doing to our Democracy.

For starters, trying to suppress the votes of those who do not usually vote for Republicans.

U.S. Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina's Voter ID Law (2016)
www.npr.org

...The appeals court noted that the North Carolina Legislature "requested data on the use, by race, of a number of voting practices" -- then, data in hand, "enacted legislation that restricted voting and registration in five different ways, all of which disproportionately affected African Americans."

The changes to the voting process "target African Americans with almost surgical precision," the circuit court wrote, and "impose cures for problems that did not exist."

The appeals court suggested that the motivation was fundamentally political -- a Republican legislature attempting to secure its power by blocking votes from a population likely to vote for Democrats....

[emphasis mine]

Georgia's GOP House Speaker says vote-by-mail system would be 'devastating to Republicans' (April 2020)
thehill.com

..."... a multitude of reasons why vote by mail in my view is not acceptable," [Georgia state House Speaker David] Ralston went on, before adding "the president said it best, this will be extremely devastating to Republicans and conservatives in Georgia." ...

"The things they had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you ever agreed to, you would never have a Republican elected in this country again," Pres Trump said...


Related ...

Trump Is Losing Patience Over the Iran War
politicalwire.com

... "President Trump was fed up," the Wall Street Journal reports.

"During a recent meeting in the Oval Office, he launched into a tirade against Iranian leaders, calling them scumbags and lunatics, and unleashing a series of expletives, according to a person who heard the comments."

"As the war in Iran enters its fifth month, Trump is increasingly frustrated that a conflict he once thought would be over in a matter of weeks has dragged on with no end in sight, administration officials and others close to the president said." ...


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