Word: syntax
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...writing a villanelle? What's a villanelle again? Two lines that alternate and repeat, then come together at the end and mean something. A villanelle is supposed to be elegiac. What's elegiac again? Concupiscent ducks fly in a crazy syntax over powerboats throbbing in the canal. A mole slinks back to his underworld kennel. Succinct, admirable outcast. I paddle down the stream of unconsciousness. I used to look forward to summer...
...Guzman never got academic credit for "E-mail Password Sender Trojan." But the proposal's mangled syntax--de Guzman described a program that "catched and retrieved all lose passwords that users can enjoy"--was a dead giveaway. The proposal appears to have been a blueprint for the Love Bug virus that wreaked havoc on e-mail systems around the world, from the Pentagon to the British Parliament, and caused as much as $15 billion in damage. The skinny 23-year-old de Guzman came out of hiding last week for a press conference at which he came close to admitting...
...Tony Coehlo, campaign manager for Vice President Al Gore '69, were trying to map the mind of a typical attentive voter as decision-time approaches, that voter might suggest that he keep Gore away from a dishonesty of syntax. What? That's right, syntax. Policy positions and leadership ability are obviously crucial to our voting decisions, but how a candidate answers a question or avoids it, the words he uses when he backs away from a former position or assumes a new one, can and should be in our minds when we go to the ballot...