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Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Weird Al meets Schoolhouse Rock
Does this mean that Weird Al has jumped the shark?
Either way, I am sympathetic to the message, but wonder whether insulting people will really work as a motivator for them to improve their writing.
For the young(er) people, "jumped the shark" is defined here and the Schoolhouse Rock reference is explained here.
"Amish Paradise" was not a rejection of modernity, "Fat" was not an embrace of obesity. Why are we sure that this *parody* song is an embrace of prescriptive grammar rather than well, just another parody of both a song and a subculture?
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"Amish Paradise" was not a rejection of modernity, "Fat" was not an embrace of obesity. Why are we sure that this *parody* song is an embrace of prescriptive grammar rather than well, just another parody of both a song and a subculture?
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