Word: everydayness
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Actually, complex terms like "hyper-correction"and "leveled pronouns" might confuse ordinaryreaders, but Knowles used them to effectivelybuild a thesis about everyday speech...
Grammatical errors arise in everyday speechwhen people couple another pronoun with "you" in asentence, Knowles says. Many people incorrectlysays "He hit you and I" when the correct formshould be "you and me," she says...
...that relied on well-chosen period tunes, this Horses features a good new score, blending old-fashioned novelty numbers and ballads with contemporary character songs for fully a dozen roles. In the exquisite ensemble number Sunday Morning, a lilting series of one- and two-line vignettes recalls the everyday normality that the contestants once enjoyed and that the Depression destroyed. But while Nagle Jackson's book is shrewdly and tightly constructed, his lyrics frequently sound clankingly obvious and unrevealingly generic ("We found the Depression depressing, and so we just went on dancing...
...with reality that a little artifice couldn't fix, might all be prototypes of a certain kind of Japanese aesthetics (the Japanese Book of Tea reads almost like a pure invention of Wilde's, with its "cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence"). Yet Wilde also saw that silver generalities conceal basic copper truths: "The actual people who live in Japan," he wrote, "are not unlike the general run of English people...
...children, talented and engaging, have the same down-home appeal, in contrast to the adult villagers and visiting officials, who seem contrived. This is not a portrait of an artist as a young man, but a portrait of a young man sharing with the next generation the art of everyday living and learning. Every society needs such do-gooders to come to the rescue, working for the common good with uncommon goodwill...