Carnival of the Elitist Bastards #4
The fourth Carnival of the Elitist Bastards went up during our absence, over at Blake Stacey’s blog Science after Sunclipse. Blake does a great job demonstrating that it’s possible to be a physicist and simultaneously have an impressive command of the English language. I haven’t read that much iambic pentameter in one sitting since high school.
Speaking of English fluency, I was particularly happy to see in the carnival a thorough explanation of elitist bastard language. Even though I’m generally against trying to live up to the “bastard” title, I do hate when people use “begging the question” to mean “making one wonder” rather than “employing circular logic”! Plenty of my other pet peeves are covered there as well — read and grumble along with me. Of course, all the posts at the carnival are worth a read, and I’m glad to see my post about the realities of the LHC found a place among them.
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