wednesday, february 15, 2006
Things my boyfriend and I have argued about
In the spirit of Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About:
- The brokenness of XHTML, and whether it is flawed and stupid or just something to be wrestled a bit with.
- Grammar. I say the language that people speak is right. He says the rules of grammar are right.
- Chickens as beings that deserve not to be eaten.
- Fitt’s law and OS X vs. Windows. OS X does not break it that badly, and it does have a better user interface, and it’s not just the Human Interface Guidelines.
- Bananaphone!
- Whether Jeweled Platypus’ design is too complex; whether taking things away would take away functionality.
- The sacredness of Apple. “Everything awesome that Apple did, Sony did at least ten years earlier.” (Although that was significantly qualified.)
Also, he demands I notify the audience that he employs infinitely meta-recursive auto-satire. In other words, some of these arguments were not in total seriousness, and this list is different from the list of things we actually disagree about.
- Hyphenating compound words.
- The seriousness of this document.
comments (3)
since i have the final say on all things, the language which people speak is right, chickens deserve to not be eaten OS X is better, bananaphones are lame, the design isn't too comlex except for the fact that in comments you can;t just press the return key for line-breaks, and apple is sacred and sony is lame and so are hyphens and documents aren't that serious. if your boyfriend disagrees tell him that he has no idea what your sister is capable of and say it right without your chin getting all pointy. and pretty much no matter what lame things you guys fight about you're still cooler than some other sibling we have who is nauseatingly sappy.
– lizzy on 2/15/2006 19:04:43
The grammar that people use to speak with is a perfectly acceptable grammar for use in talk. The grammar that you use to write is a perfectly acceptable grammar for use in writing.
The written word is an imperfect copy of the spoken word. Nuances, tone and stressing points are all missing, and it's actually fairly crippling compared to what you can express by speaking.
The written word grammar is used exactly to get around these problems, or at least to help approach them. Requiring either media to use the other's grammar is about as logical as requiring all cartoons to look exactly like things do in real life, or the other way around.
Stop trying to shoehorn your language into another, inappropriate form, designed to evade problems you don't have.
– Jesper on 2/16/2006 00:34:57
Hello Britta,
Just found your site and found it quite interesting. Found it through your site about menubar apps and OS X.
Best regards,
Isak
– Isak on 2/16/2006 01:56:25
