A website claims to have lip-read Pelini’s inspirational speech to his quarterback. Strunk & White wouldn’t approve–too much repetition, too many adjectives and adverbs.
No, Strunk and White would find it a rather impoverished mode of address — especially since we are always instructed to regard the university coach/player relationship as taking place within an academic culture, and reflecting the values of that culture…
November 22nd, 2010 at 10:41PM
A website claims to have lip-read Pelini’s inspirational speech to his quarterback. Strunk & White wouldn’t approve–too much repetition, too many adjectives and adverbs.
November 22nd, 2010 at 11:32PM
No, Strunk and White would find it a rather impoverished mode of address — especially since we are always instructed to regard the university coach/player relationship as taking place within an academic culture, and reflecting the values of that culture…