Carlin’s last interview

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1. Wonderful! Thank you so much for finding this interview.

2. I must confess I’ve never heard of him before. Wonderful interview though and still going strong in what is a highly demanding job at 70. That’s love and dedication to you’re art.

3. Yes, thank you for posting this article.

   However, am I the only one who noticed how badly written this article is? Even the the excerpt you quoted (correctly) is badly written.

   Ironically, Jay Dixit says that Carlin said ” a rich area for my work [is] talking about how we talk. I wonder how Carlin would have felt about the expression “passed away “? I suspect Carlin would have used “died.”

   1. It’s a rough transcription of a verbal interview, so yes, it is badly written.

4. I have the same problem Veronica with dyslexia.

   Many people do indeed view such things as a sign
   of stupidity and ignorance. I don’t know if the editor of psychology today is dyslexic but you seem to be suggesting it would be unacceptable if they were.

5. I’m having trouble deciphering your cryptic reply above.
   Do you mean that because the article is “a rough transcription of a verbal interview,” leaving out verbs and prepositions and spelling altar as “alter” is acceptable. Is this an acceptable way for “a Senior Editor at Psychology Today” to write?

   It appears as if Dixit is the “a ninth-grade dropout,” not Carlin.

   1. Veronica, it’s an online rough draft – they guy even says so. If I saw it in that format in a publication I’d expect it to be polished, but I make worse typos (and surreptitiously correct them over subsequent days) on this blog all the time.

6. With all the interesting stuff said by Carlin what difference does it make that the interviewer isn’t writing perfect English?

   What’s more important, how the questions are written or the answers given?

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