catch phrases and calling cards

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Hmm... I bracket, I dash, the semicolon gets correctly resorted to, and my sentences grow long tails unless I trim them... that vexes Undertoad... but I think the most distinctive feature of my writing is my willingness to display learned coinings -- I like it when they're of my own invention. And I hope they aren't hemipygian.

LJ, it looks to me like tw got on the guess lists twice: #1 in the first and #3 the second? What's up with that?

[LJ]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Hmm... I bracket, I dash, the semicolon gets correctly resorted to, and my sentences grow long tails unless I trim them... that vexes Undertoad... but I think the most distinctive feature of my writing is my willingness to display learned coinings -- I like it when they're of my own invention. And I hope they aren't hemipygian.

LJ, it looks to me like tw got on the guess lists twice: #1 in the first and #3 the second? What's up with that?

well, it's really a function of his lack of imagination. he seems to use the exact same devices repeatedly. I could, I'm sure, list a dozen or so of his oft repeated phraseprints. If I was an ubergeek code maven, and had the time, I could create a program that would translate paragraphs into twese. The effort that would take would be wasted on such a small audience, though.


perhaps someone could create a form that you could fill in a person's idiomatic phrases or common word strings.....ah, nevermind.

[Mockingbird]