Comments on: The Knights of Malta Ball 2007 http://www.andrewcusack.com/2007/02/22/the-knights-of-malta-ball-2007/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:53:18 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: ben constant http://www.andrewcusack.com/2007/02/22/the-knights-of-malta-ball-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-1270 ben constant Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:26:48 +0000 http://www.andrewcusack.com/net/2007/02/22/the-knights-of-malta-ball-2007/#comment-1270 Goodness me - you really are trying hard. This website is quite painful to read - my Old Harrovian toes are curling! Goodness me – you really are trying hard. This website is quite painful to read – my Old Harrovian toes are curling!

]]> By: Ric Foxley http://www.andrewcusack.com/2007/02/22/the-knights-of-malta-ball-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-1269 Ric Foxley Sun, 25 Feb 2007 21:32:55 +0000 http://www.andrewcusack.com/net/2007/02/22/the-knights-of-malta-ball-2007/#comment-1269 Hi, I have a Google Alert for Monckton - it being my mother's maiden name. Can you tell me whose son Ed Monckton is? We visited his grandparents 20 years or so ago in Kent - his great grandfather and mine were first cousins. Thanks a lot, Ric Foxley, New Zealand Hi, I have a Google Alert for Monckton – it being my mother’s maiden name. Can you tell me whose son Ed Monckton is? We visited his grandparents 20 years or so ago in Kent – his great grandfather and mine were first cousins.

Thanks a lot,

Ric Foxley,
New Zealand

]]> By: Alessandro http://www.andrewcusack.com/2007/02/22/the-knights-of-malta-ball-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-1268 Alessandro Sun, 25 Feb 2007 15:27:40 +0000 http://www.andrewcusack.com/net/2007/02/22/the-knights-of-malta-ball-2007/#comment-1268 Welcome back, Andrew. Sounds like you had a great time at the ball. (I'm glad that you were able to find a ticket!) Welcome back, Andrew. Sounds like you had a great time at the ball. (I’m glad that you were able to find a ticket!)

]]> By: Sharon http://www.andrewcusack.com/2007/02/22/the-knights-of-malta-ball-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-1267 Sharon Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:16:24 +0000 http://www.andrewcusack.com/net/2007/02/22/the-knights-of-malta-ball-2007/#comment-1267 EDITOR, may I introduce you to another stickler Lynne Truss, author of 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves'. EDITOR, may I introduce you to another stickler Lynne Truss, author of ‘Eats, Shoots and Leaves’.

]]> By: Rory http://www.andrewcusack.com/2007/02/22/the-knights-of-malta-ball-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-1266 Rory Sat, 24 Feb 2007 00:06:32 +0000 http://www.andrewcusack.com/net/2007/02/22/the-knights-of-malta-ball-2007/#comment-1266 Have you put on weight, Andy? Have you put on weight, Andy?

]]> By: CAWP http://www.andrewcusack.com/2007/02/22/the-knights-of-malta-ball-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-1265 CAWP Sat, 24 Feb 2007 00:06:08 +0000 http://www.andrewcusack.com/net/2007/02/22/the-knights-of-malta-ball-2007/#comment-1265 Stickling is useless, I'm afraid. If it makes sense - even a new kind of sense - it doesn't matter whether or not it breaks an abstract rule. Much of conventional language and language uses were once transgressive abuses, deviant or outlandish for the purpose of expressiveness. It is also how some words have lost specific or powerful meaning over the years (e.g. awesome, awful, etc, which are no longer specifically religious and laudatory in a fearful fashion, but common adjectives, or worse, mere intensifiers). Stickling is useless, I’m afraid. If it makes sense – even a new kind of sense – it doesn’t matter whether or not it breaks an abstract rule. Much of conventional language and language uses were once transgressive abuses, deviant or outlandish for the purpose of expressiveness. It is also how some words have lost specific or powerful meaning over the years (e.g. awesome, awful, etc, which are no longer specifically religious and laudatory in a fearful fashion, but common adjectives, or worse, mere intensifiers).

]]> By: Editor http://www.andrewcusack.com/2007/02/22/the-knights-of-malta-ball-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-1264 Editor Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:14:12 +0000 http://www.andrewcusack.com/net/2007/02/22/the-knights-of-malta-ball-2007/#comment-1264 Regarding "as per," I stand corrected -- it <i>is</i> listed in the OED as accepted usage. Etymologically/semantically, though, it makes little sense... Like saying the "general consensus" (since the consensus is already general). No insult intended, by the way. Just a stickler for these kinds of things :-) I do enjoy your writing! Regarding “as per,”

I stand corrected — it is listed in the OED as accepted usage.

Etymologically/semantically, though, it makes little sense… Like saying the “general consensus” (since the consensus is already general).

No insult intended, by the way. Just a stickler for these kinds of things :-)

I do enjoy your writing!

]]> By: Andrew Cusack http://www.andrewcusack.com/2007/02/22/the-knights-of-malta-ball-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-1263 Andrew Cusack Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:00:44 +0000 http://www.andrewcusack.com/net/2007/02/22/the-knights-of-malta-ball-2007/#comment-1263 'An', rather? I am pressed and tired and attacked from all sides! ‘An’, rather?

I am pressed and tired and attacked from all sides!

]]> By: L. Gaylord Clark http://www.andrewcusack.com/2007/02/22/the-knights-of-malta-ball-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-1262 L. Gaylord Clark Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:48:10 +0000 http://www.andrewcusack.com/net/2007/02/22/the-knights-of-malta-ball-2007/#comment-1262 "It was quite THE enjoyable ball..." Cusack? Not quite the thing, young sir. “It was quite THE enjoyable ball…” Cusack?
Not quite the thing, young sir.

]]> By: Andrew Cusack http://www.andrewcusack.com/2007/02/22/the-knights-of-malta-ball-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-1261 Andrew Cusack Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:18:56 +0000 http://www.andrewcusack.com/net/2007/02/22/the-knights-of-malta-ball-2007/#comment-1261 Regarding 'as per usual': the OED includes it, raising no objections, so I see no cause against it. Regarding ‘as per usual’: the OED includes it, raising no objections, so I see no cause against it.

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