As promised to Messrs. Prevost and Rushing, not one, but TWO fine specimens
from the Annals:


As one of this generation's most popular actors, [Brad] Pitt has explored
many of the cultural tensions of our emerging postmodern era. Depicting
masculine American whiteness in various stages of crisis, his characters
generally enact complex postmodern agencies: they are never wholly
coherent, they are often self-destructive, and they generally rely on a
certain amount of play --between stability and instability, between life
and death, between autonomy and alter-dependency, between control and
abandon. Simultaneously reifying and challenging hegemonic codes of race,
class, gender and regional or national identity, his characters explore the
complex and changing postmodern cultural landscape [continues for some while]
Call for papers for a conference entitled "The Cultural Logic of Brad
Pitt", Montana State University


They [students] should recognise the grammatical compression evident in
certain types of data, brought about by economies of time or space and
realised through ellipsis and recently established conventions. They should
also recognise that in some texts graphology is not so important per se as
for its structural and interactive implications; and in relation to
pragmatics they should be aware of the specific shared cultural knowledge
necessary to using a medium (i.e. the collusive aspect), and ultimately be
able to explain why particular language choices have been made.
"Language and Technology" section of the AQA 'A' level specification for
English Language, relating to text messaging


Fritz Efaw,
per/pro
The Sacco-Vanzetti Chair
of Excellent Edu-Babble