Tag Archives: The New Yorker
Hasan Minhaj’s search for the premise
When Hasan Minhaj spoke on his show about living through some dangerous experiences as a Muslim man from an Indian family growing up in the US of A, he wasn’t speaking the truth. He told Clare Malone of The New … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Op-eds
Tagged Clare Malone, Devesh Kumar, Hasan Minhaj, journalism, Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, The Wire
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The climate change of bad news
This post flows a bit like the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket. As one friend put it, “It starts somewhere and then goes in a different direction.” This year hasn’t been beset by the same old steady drizzle of bad news … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Op-eds
Tagged bad news, Ben Smith, caste, cognitive dissonance, fact-checking, Jacob Silverman, Jonah Lehrer, journalism, Miami Herald, parachute journalism, privileges, Rafia Zakaria, Rukmini Callimachi, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The New Yorker
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Google Docs: A New Hope
I suspect the Google Docs grammar bot is the least useful bot there is. After hundreds of suggestions, I can think of only one instance in which it was right. Is its failure rate so high because it learns from … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis
Tagged bots, Colonialism, economic inequaity, Google Docs, grammar, imperialism, machine learning, Punctuation, semantics, spellGrammar, spellGrammarFingerprint, styleguide, syntax, The New Yorker
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The usefulness of good grammar
Why is good grammar important? In the Indian mainstream media at least, it appears that readers won’t penalise reporters and editors for imperfect use of grammar and punctuation. To be clear, they will notice – and many will avoid – … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Op-eds
Tagged anti-intellectualism, grammar, iPhone, New York Review of Books, Punctuation, The Baffler, The New Yorker, utilitarian philosophy
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The unclosed clause and other things about commas
The Baffler carried a fantastic critique of The New Yorker‘s use of commas by Kyle Paoletta on August 23. Excerpt: The magazine’s paper subscription slips have long carried a tagline: “The best writing, anywhere.” It follows that the source of … Continue reading
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Tagged comma, dependent clauses, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, grammar, James Salter, language, Mary Norris, Punctuation, semantics, Solar Bones, syntactics, The New Yorker
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