Carlin’s last interview 20 Jun 2009 I’m a Macintosh a guy and so Spotlight helps me a lot. I just get on Spotlight and say, let’s see, if I say “asshole” and “minister,” I then can find what I want find. I knew I liked that guy… read the rest here. Humor
Administrative For the past week, I’ve actually been in Germany 15 Oct 2009 You know those stories about absent minded professors? I just showed that you don’t actually need a professorial appointment. I was meeting Steve Clarke, a leading philosopher who is at Oxford, at 12.45. I turned up on the dot at St Cross College (they have such great names here!), but… Read More
Evolution Out of the mouths of [mental] babes 2 Jun 2008 Creationism is being pushed legislatively in Texas again. But this line is priceless, from State Board of Education vice chairman, David Bradley (yes, you guessed, a Republican): Bradley said he doesn’t foresee any successful effort to remove the “strengths and weaknesses” requirement from the science standards. “There are issues in… Read More
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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?