Saturday, December 31, 2005
Friday, December 30, 2005
Truthiness: my new favorite word
Steven Colbert introduces it as such:
Language Log: Truthiness or trustiness?: "And on this show, on this show your voice will be heard... in the form of my voice. 'Cause you're looking at a straight-shooter, America. I tell it like it is. I calls 'em like I sees 'em. I will speak to you in plain simple English.
And that brings us to tonight's word: truthiness.
Now I'm sure some of the Word Police, the wordanistas over at Webster's, are gonna say, 'Hey, that's not a word.' Well, anybody who knows me knows that I'm no fan of dictionaries or reference books. They're elitist. Constantly telling us what is or isn't true, or what did or didn't happen. Who's Britannica to tell me the Panama Canal was finished in 1914? If I wanna say it happened in 1941, that's my right. I don't trust books. They're all fact, no heart."
Your Camera Does Not Matter © 2005 Ken Rockwell
Ken simplifies to prove a point, but simplification to this extent is just silly. He uses Ansel Adams to justify his argument that "your camera does not matter." Yes, Ansel Adams, the man with a humongous camera that took pictures on enormous sheets of film and the man who dedicated weeks to testing his metering and development process so he could get the precise exposure and tonal range he wanted. The man who took no action shots. Bullshit!
Your Camera Does Not Matter © 2005 Ken Rockwell
Thursday, December 29, 2005
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