Comments on: Too much for Derrida’s http://www.dustbury.com/archives/8138 I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:36:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kirk http://www.dustbury.com/archives/8138/comment-page-1#comment-18226 Kirk Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:56:52 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/?p=8138#comment-18226 Chaz, your headlines are one of the reasons I started reading Dustbury, however long ago that was now. Including a nice literary, historical or cultural reference in a headline is fun, and it adds interest. For the nitwits (and there are many) who don't get it, what's the harm? And for the rest of us, it's a little bonus in our daily reading. Chaz, your headlines are one of the reasons I started reading Dustbury, however long ago that was now. Including a nice literary, historical or cultural reference in a headline is fun, and it adds interest. For the nitwits (and there are many) who don’t get it, what’s the harm? And for the rest of us, it’s a little bonus in our daily reading.

]]> By: fillyjonk http://www.dustbury.com/archives/8138/comment-page-1#comment-18224 fillyjonk Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:04:44 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/?p=8138#comment-18224 Wait...what? He's saying that clever headlines are unfair because people who didn't have/didn't take advantage of literary or educational opportunities may be closed out of enjoying them? So we should all be subjected to something rather like the VOA's "Special English Broadcast" where....everything...is....very....short...words...and....delivered.... very....slowly... Feh. This is where I start becoming one of those dreaded "elitists." Wait…what? He’s saying that clever headlines are unfair because people who didn’t have/didn’t take advantage of literary or educational opportunities may be closed out of enjoying them? So we should all be subjected to something rather like the VOA’s “Special English Broadcast”

where….everything…is….very….short…words…and….delivered….
very….slowly…

Feh. This is where I start becoming one of those dreaded “elitists.”

]]> By: jen http://www.dustbury.com/archives/8138/comment-page-1#comment-18222 jen Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:08:21 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/?p=8138#comment-18222 I like this post very much. I think about this quite a bit as I do a fair amount of freelancing. I like literary and academic references - I guess that's what you call them - for lack of a better word. With the advent of google-galore, I use them more than I did 15 or 20 years ago. I don't think I write for the 8th or 12th grade audience anymore. I figure if someone stumbles on something they don't get, they can just google it. I like this post very much. I think about this quite a bit as I do a fair amount of freelancing. I like literary and academic references – I guess that’s what you call them – for lack of a better word. With the advent of google-galore, I use them more than I did 15 or 20 years ago. I don’t think I write for the 8th or 12th grade audience anymore. I figure if someone stumbles on something they don’t get, they can just google it.

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