Posts by JeffreyJDean@hcommons.social
 (DIR) Post #AWVqHpQUeBFgIE9jKS by JeffreyJDean@hcommons.social
       2023-06-09T10:51:48Z
       
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       @grammargirl @jgamble If I mistake not, Ambrose Bierce included “incompossible” in *The Devil’s dictionary*.
       
 (DIR) Post #AnnNwx87iEe1SE8BUm by JeffreyJDean@hcommons.social
       2024-11-07T09:44:50Z
       
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       @futurebird FWIW, my wife, who learned cursive in a British school 60+ years ago, has always printed her signature…
       
 (DIR) Post #Aq8Tou5zl24qRCDtk8 by JeffreyJDean@hcommons.social
       2025-01-16T09:43:44Z
       
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       @futurebird According to her husband, the classic mystery writer Margery Allingham used to write her first drafts in longhand and *then* dictate them to a secretary, adjusting the diction on the fly to be more like speech than writing.
       
 (DIR) Post #Au5VDikZCwYSS0sLFw by JeffreyJDean@hcommons.social
       2025-05-14T14:43:36Z
       
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       @futurebird YUntil just a few years ago, the New Yorker had a preliminary section “Goings On About Town “, which included very brief notices of every play being staged that week. In the early 1970s, when The Fantasticks had become the longest-running play in New York, they started substituting Joyce’s Ulysses, one sentence a week, for its notice. I happened to check the notice the day they started: my high school was putting on the show and my best friend (playing the Boy) and I (assistant stage manager) wanted to go to New York and see it. I can’t recall how long they kept it up.