Part I
1.” But far away the CES’s most popular venue, with total attendance well over 100,000 every year, is what is called the Adult Software exhibition, despite the fact the CES itself treats the Adult tradeshow kind of like the crazy relative in the family and keeps it way out in what used to be the parking garage of the sands hotel.”
Yes:” Software” Is a funny misnomer here. It’s going to be a constant temptation to keep winking and nudging and saying ” no pun intended” or ” as it were” after every possible off-color entendre, of which there are so many at the AAVNAS that yr. corresps. have decided to try to leave most of them to the reader’s discretion as matter of personal choice and taste.
2.”And 20-year veteran Joey Silvera is at this year’s CES, though mostly in his capacity as an auteur: Silvera now directs Evil Angel’s popular “Butt Row” video series.
Silvera, who broke in way back in the ’70s at Times Square’s old show world, looks like a curly-haired and extremely fit praying mantis; he’s even weirder-looking now that his curls are mostly gray. He’s also famous for always showing up on the set with small duffel bag filled with exotic vitamins and herbal and other supplements, all self-prescribed.
3.”Then one of the starlets decides that she’s hungry, and Max insists on escorting her down to the Sahara’s restaurant and wants everybody else to come along, which eventually results in the B-girls and crewmen and yr. corresps.
Hecuba and Filth, being both familiar with Max and financially independent of him, elect to remain in the suite under the beady and seemingly lidless eye of the production Asst. ( who, by the way, is not wearing a fire-colored MAXWORLD jumpsuit but has evidently been promised one if he completes his probationary employment period in good standing)
4.”But the really salient and ingenious features of A Dictionary of Modern American Usage involve issues or rhetoric and ideology and style, and it is impossible to describe why these issues are important and why Garner’s management of them borders on genius without talking about the historical context in which ADMAU appears, and this context turns out to be a veritable hurricane of controversies…”
Sorry about this phrase; i hate this phrase, too. This happens to be one of those very rare times when “historical context” is the phrase to use and there is no equivalent phrase that isn’t even worse (I actually tried ” lexico-temporal backdrop” in one of the middle drafts, which i think you’ll agree is not preferable)
5.”So hard to maintain on certain issues that its almost irresistibly tempting to fall in with some established dogmatic camp and to follow that camp’s line on the issue and to let your position harden within the camp and become inflexible and to believe that the other camps are either evil or insane and to spend all your time and energy trying to shout over them.”
It seems to be a natural law that camps form only in opposition to other camps and that there are always at least two w/r/t any difficult issue
6.” I realized early- at the age of 15 that my primary intellectual intrest was the use of the English language”
“(Garner prescribes spelling out only numbers under ten. I was taught that this rule applies just to Business Writing and that in all other modes you spell out one though nineteen and start using cardinals at 20. De gustibus non est disputandum.)
Tangential. It goes off into an entirely different direction. Tries to make it funny because this is about porn and the name of it has software in it.
This footnote is providing more information. It is letting the readers know a little more about the person that was staring in the movie.
This footnote is tangential. This goes into another direction and starts off by talking about going get someting to eat and ends up talking about a person that is not wearing a certain type of outfit thats been promised to him.
Tangential. This footnote is used to apologize for using that phrase.
This goes to explain more. He explains why he used camps to describe the types of issues that he wanted to explain.
Tangential because it’s explaining where he got the rule to spell out certain numbers from why he decided to spell out certain numbers and on others just use the number
The main purpose of a footnote is to acknowledge the source of any direct or indirect quotation of any idea, opinion, or factual material, which you have taken (not necessarily in quotation) from another author or authority. Footnotes can also be used to expand, or supplement, statement made in the body of your essay with information, which is peripheral to your main argument but still considered relevant.
www.informatics.sussex.ac.ur/department/docs/punctuation/node48.html
Part II
1. I would describe David Foster Wallace point of view in “Big Red Son” is that he’s an outsider explaining what he sees and hears about the porn industry. He was not being sarcastic about the situation he was being in. He seemed that he was very interested about being to the event. He was not trying to judge anyone he was just amazed by the information he was finding out. I don’t think his role as reporter affected his point of view. He didn’t hold anything back of try to make it seem like it was nasty.
2. My perception about the porn industry after reading “Big Red Son” is very good now. This showed that the people who participated in these videos are not nasty. They are not just doing this just for their own entertainment. This is their job and they are just trying to make their money like the next person. The impression that David Foster Wallace wants us to have on the porn industry is to stop viewing it as something that is just disgusting and nasty. This is really something that is though about over time and not thrown together last minute.
3. The title “Authority and American Usage” means the right and wrong way to write and the way that us American people use words. I do believe that there is both a right and wrong way to use words. Almost every year our language changes as well as usage. In more professional situations we are going to use the right grammar and complete sentences. If we are hanging out with family and friends we often use “slangs” and just try to make the sentences short as possible.
4. This is saying that if there was a book written on American usage the people that should buy the book will not get it. This is something that people do not worry about, but the people that would go get is called a SNOOT. A SNOOT is someone that would be called a nerd and they are definitley the ones that need to stay away from these kinds of books. (Wallace, 69)
When we are talking there are two things that get our point across. Its the verbal information that is being conveyed and the communicator. The way that the sentence is heard thist is thhow we will be remembered by. There is plenty of ways to say one basic thing. It all depends on the situation and mood that a person is in and that is determined on the way your sentence will come across. “Could we finish this up later?” or “Get out” Choose the right one to handle the situation correctly. (Wallace, 96-97)
Part III
The challenging of borders and limits, including those of decency
The exploration of the marginalized aspects of life and marginalized elements of society. (The ‘problem’ with grand narratives is that they bring all of experience under one explanatory and one implicitly or explicitly regulative order, and hence are potentially totalitarian and repressive; the problem of trying to live without them is that without their explanatory frame there is no way in which acts can be validated other than through the validation of pleasure or pain, some would say beauty or ugliness.)
