tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post8505699506099290841..comments2024-03-17T19:13:59.371+00:00Comments on Nigeness: The Brexit Comma, among other thingsNigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-14379677393350955822020-02-09T14:22:15.919+00:002020-02-09T14:22:15.919+00:00It's just mood music to lull those who thought...It's just mood music to lull those who thought (and doubtless still think) Brexit was all about hating foreigners.Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-89913615222552912942020-02-09T05:36:52.103+00:002020-02-09T05:36:52.103+00:00Fascinating observations about the comma N - for w...Fascinating observations about the comma N - for which my thanks. My objection to the new coin is not grammatical but regarding the sentiment - do we have, and shoud we wish to have,"friendship" with all nations (would we have expressed such a sentimant in 1939?). Realpolitik may force us, with pegs on our noses, to have dealings with Saud Arabia, Iran, China, North Korea and so on - as we had to with Stalin's Russia during the war - but "friendship"?? And surely our government should never have supported Saudi Arabia's admission to the UN's Human Rights Committee, now utterly corrupted and worse than useless. However, nothing would induce me to arrogantly incovenience anyone working in a shop by refusing to accept the new coin as change - as some elitist snobs have said they intend to do.bootless tishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03433731063537275038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-42802516526285872982020-02-09T05:31:05.977+00:002020-02-09T05:31:05.977+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.bootless tishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03433731063537275038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-71968045715402778022020-02-04T21:59:04.184+00:002020-02-04T21:59:04.184+00:00Oh dear yes. I hadn't heard...Oh dear yes. I hadn't heard...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-75994949598710994852020-02-04T14:07:56.716+00:002020-02-04T14:07:56.716+00:00Sad about George Steiner. Sad about George Steiner. ricardohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07459143499003220529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-54791229446579510272020-02-04T10:13:10.664+00:002020-02-04T10:13:10.664+00:00Yes indeed George – and transmitted over the Chris...Yes indeed George – and transmitted over the Christmas holiday. Wish I'd been there to hear them...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-2278582142653206512020-02-04T00:46:23.427+00:002020-02-04T00:46:23.427+00:00Perhaps a moment of reflection would have improved...Perhaps a moment of reflection would have improved the syntax of the coin. (And couldn't "with all nations" also qualify "peace"? The US has generally been at peace with most nations, but often enough at war with one or more.) I believe John F. Kennedy had been dead for a year or so before his image appeared on a coin. <br /><br />It seems appropriate that you should have gone halfway around the world to purchase <i>The Elsewhere Club</i>. In my own copy, purchased used but much nearer home, the author's note on page xi begins by saying "The book you are holding was not written to be a book; it contains the scripts for five radio broadcasts, transmitted on successive day."Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.com