January 2010 Archives

Agh - few things annoy my linguistic sensibilities more than random capitalisation. Sure, misplaced apostrophes are probably a greater grammatical blot on the language landscape, but the capitalisation of words is more irritating because of its intentional nature.

I'm currently editing and rewriting the copy on a massive IT website and still come across examples of nail-on-blackboard level irritation.

Comedy writing has always had a harder time finding legitimacy than other forms - television comedy even more so. Different writing genres have always been prone to elitism and arbitrary labels of legitimacy or triviality, which seems a mite unfair when we look for genuine artistry.

When choosing movies to see, I have one rule - no 'white poster movies'. What is a white poster movie, I hear you ask? Quite simply, they are movies where the poster says absolutely nothing about what you're invited to see, opting instead for a major shot of the big drawcard celeb(s) instead. White posters betray that the prime selling point for a film is the name actor and not the abysmal script or shoddy direction.