As a former Artistic Director at a locally-recognized and regionally-suspected theater company (and an even-more-former dramaturg at a much larger place), I can report that this kind of prose, alas, predates bot culture. I once proposed a "Platonic Marketing" campaign, along the lines of: Six Good Plays (Three of them Great), and Here's Why You Might Want to See Them.... (capital letters for typographic notice, not correctness). It was not adopted.
One more comma would have left the mayor less drunk: "The embrace of the two cultures spilled over into the city, as the NBC affiliate TV station in Boston put it: 'They’ve marched through Boston, attended a Red Sox game at Fenway Park, played the bagpipes, tried out the city’s viral cop slide, put traffic cones on the heads of statues like Samuel Adams, made friends with the locals, cheered as Mayor Michelle Wu signed documents kicking off a sister city partnership with Glasgow and drank beer. A lot of beer.'" (From Margaret Sullivan's column in the Guardian.)
And lo, the celebrants turned to salt.
Mandanistas is now canon. I’m working on rewriting the Clash LP as we speak……
Surely you both mean Mamdanistas, not Mandanistas.
Surely, we do.
Breaking News — Mandami to City: “Drop Hyphens!”
Mandamites, Mandamiites — Let’s call the whole thing off
As a general rule, I would prefer bot-omized to bot-composed. Might be just me though.
Hear, hear! (Not "here, here!" which is for calling the pooch.)
As a former Artistic Director at a locally-recognized and regionally-suspected theater company (and an even-more-former dramaturg at a much larger place), I can report that this kind of prose, alas, predates bot culture. I once proposed a "Platonic Marketing" campaign, along the lines of: Six Good Plays (Three of them Great), and Here's Why You Might Want to See Them.... (capital letters for typographic notice, not correctness). It was not adopted.
That is both hilarious and endearing, and you should absolutely have been allowed to proceed.
So good and I love the cartoon as well .
Sun-Times editorial writers of yore found "spinach," sotto voce, useful in many meetings with the publisher.
One more comma would have left the mayor less drunk: "The embrace of the two cultures spilled over into the city, as the NBC affiliate TV station in Boston put it: 'They’ve marched through Boston, attended a Red Sox game at Fenway Park, played the bagpipes, tried out the city’s viral cop slide, put traffic cones on the heads of statues like Samuel Adams, made friends with the locals, cheered as Mayor Michelle Wu signed documents kicking off a sister city partnership with Glasgow and drank beer. A lot of beer.'" (From Margaret Sullivan's column in the Guardian.)
Oh yipes. 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺