Harmless Drudgery

Random thoughts from a wordsmith, budding lexicographer, and 'snapper up of unconsidered trifles'.

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Friday, 24 March 2023

Wings of thought, etc.

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Nearly 8 years ago I wrote here In a summer concert (probably called Music for a summer's evening – they usually are [see here ]) ...

Wednesday, 22 March 2023

The Trumpet Involuntary

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Paul Klee talked about drawing as 'Taking a line for a walk'. In my case it's taking a thought for a walk. And as a distraction...

Monday, 6 March 2023

The Edge of Reason

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Reviving an old practice, I'm going to look at how this blog has been performing in the past year, using statistics provided by Google B...

Wednesday, 22 February 2023

Preventatives - better than cures

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Whenever I hear the word "preventative" I think of – if you'll pardon the expression – haplology (or rather, the inverse of ...

Monday, 13 February 2023

My, my, my

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When I first heard the song Delilah , in the late 1960s... <parenthesis subject="Uncertainty over date"> Wikipedia has the s...

Monday, 6 February 2023

Suffer the little children...

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'...don't they?', in the words of a monologue I co-wrote (in the days when this wasn't such an Old joke ). <autobiograph...

Sunday, 29 January 2023

AI - mightier than the sword?

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Distinguished linguist Professor Naomi Baron , whose new book Who Wrote This? How AI and the Lure of Efficiency Threaten Human Writing is...

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@BobKLite: After a misspent youth as an aspiring folk-rock hero and freelance polymath, I became a technical writer in the IT world and then - when I finally ran out of lives, having dodged redundancy for more than 10 years (towards the end of which I coined the word 'sub-Damoclean', to refer to my own position) - a teacher, resource creator, and writer.

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