I also dislike the emerging dominance of the phrase 'going forward.' Worse, I dislike that I find that I am using it increasingly in my verbal communication and, "going forward" I fear I will continue in this degrading trend.
<sigh> Paul On Feb 8, 2013, at 6:28 AM, Stuart McKelvie wrote: > Dear Tipsters, > > Following up on Jim's comment below, I, for one, do have a fascination with > verbal communication, and I plead guilty to having a bias towards existing > words, terms, phrases if they convey meaning well. > > Example: > > I cringe at the ubiquitous "going forward" when it is either redundant or > covered by "in the future". > > I am not alone: http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/goingforward.html > > Sincerely, > > Stuart > > ______________________________ > "Recti Cultus Pectora Roborant" > > Stuart J. McKelvie, Ph.D., > Department of Psychology, > Bishop's University, > 2600 rue College, > Sherbrooke (Borough of Lennoxville), > QC J1M 1Z7, > Canada. > > "Floreat Labore" > ______________________________ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Clark [mailto:j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca] > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 12:21 AM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Subject: Re: [tips] Disseminating your published work? > > Hi > > First, heaven help us if the grammar police start to monitor e-mail > discussions! I'll be in lots of trouble. > > Second, notwithstanding #1, interesting response and citations from Paul to > Karl's observation about the use of "they" with singular referent "some one" > (more on this referent later). Perhaps it is the vestiges of a memorable > (for all the wrong reasons) year of teaching high school English decades ago, > but I would still suggest writers (in their formal writing ... not e-mails) > try to avoid the singular "they" > by pluralizing or otherwise re-wording sentences. In the case of Deb's "if > some one feels they are ...", something like "if people feel that they are > ..." would appear to work. > > On the "some one," I would have written "someone," which led me to google the > difference. See: > > http://www.vappingo.com/word-blog/someone-or-some-one-what%E2%80%99s-the-difference/ > > The subtleties of English. I wonder if academics in general, irrespective of > their discipline, have a fascination with verbal communication given the > nature of our work (writing and speaking clearly)? Excluding postmodernists > and the like, of course. > > Take care > Jim > > > James M. Clark > Professor & Chair of Psychology > j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca > Room 4L41A > 204-786-9757 > 204-774-4134 Fax > Dept of Psychology, U of Winnipeg > 515 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB > R3B 0R4 CANADA > > >>>> Paul C Bernhardt <pcbernha...@frostburg.edu> 07-Feb-13 10:29 PM >>>> > The use of 'they' as singular is common and acceptable and has a long history > (16th century). > > http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/they.html > http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomchiversscience/100184652/if-someone-tells-you-singular-they-is-wrong-please-do-tell-them-to-get-stuffed/ > > > It is also cognitively efficient. (I used the singular they once in a > paper for a class in graduate school and footnoted the usage with this > citation to avoid grammar penalties.) > > http://pss.sagepub.com/content/8/2/106.abstract > In Search of Gender Neutrality: Is Singular They a Cognitively > Efficient Substitute for Generic He? > > 1. Julie > Foertsch<http://pss.sagepub.com/search?author1=Julie+Foertsch&sortspec=date&submit=Submit>1<http://pss.sagepub.com/content/8/2/106.abstract#aff-1> > and > 2. Morton Ann > Gernsbacher<http://pss.sagepub.com/search?author1=Morton+Ann+Gernsbacher&sortspec=date&submit=Submit>1<http://pss.sagepub.com/content/8/2/106.abstract#aff-1> > > +<http://pss.sagepub.com/content/8/2/106.abstract#> Author > Affiliations > > 1. > 1University of Wisconsin-Madison > > 1. Julie Foertsch, LEAD Center, 1402 University Ave, or Morton Ann > Gernsbacher, Department of Psychology, both at University of > Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706 > > Abstract > > With increasing frequency, writers and speakers are ignoring > grammatical proscription and using the plural pronoun they to refer to > singular antecedents. This change may, in part, be motivated by efforts > to make language more gender inclusive. In the current study, two > reading-time experiments demonstrated that singular they is a > cognitively efficient substitute for generic he or she, particularly > when the antecedent is nonreferential. In such instances, clauses > containing they were read (a) much more quickly than clauses containing > a gendered pronoun that went against the gender stereotype of the > antecedent, and (b) just as quickly as clauses containing a gendered > pronoun that matched the stereotype of the antecedent. However, with > referential antecedents, for which the gender was presumably known, > clauses containing singular they were not read as quickly as clauses > containing a gendered pronoun that matched the antecedent's stereotypic > gender. > > > On Feb 7, 2013, at 8:47 PM, Wuensch, Karl L wrote: > > > > > > > > This old fart has never seen from a publisher a restriction > that would prohibit providing a reprint to an individual. If a > publisher were to have such a restriction, I would avoid that publisher > like the Medieval plague. > > PS * *some one* is singular, but *they* is plural. The > number of a pronoun should agree with its antecedent. > > Cheers, > <image001.jpg><http://core.ecu.edu/psyc/wuenschk/klw.htm> > From: Deborah S. Briihl [mailto:dbri...@valdosta.edu] > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 8:29 PM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Subject: Re: [tips] Disseminating your published work? > > The point was that it was a request. A request is a request, not an > order. In this case, if some one feels they are breaking copyright > rules, then I can see why the request would be refused. > > And medieval? Well, now that would require a quill, ink, small knife, > parchment and a scribe. Maybe an illuminator? :) > Deb > Deborah Briihl > Dept of psych and counseling > Valdosta state university > dbri...@valdosta.edu<mailto:dbri...@valdosta.edu> > ,Sent from my iPad > > On Feb 7, 2013, at 5:11 PM, "Christopher Green" > <chri...@yorku.ca<mailto:chri...@yorku.ca>> wrote: > > Hmm. What sounded rude (or at least unconscionably snobby) to me, Deb, > was refusing to pass along an article simply because the requester is > not "of the guild." How positively Medieval. > > Chris > ----- > Christopher D. Green > Department of Psychology > York University > Toronto, ON M6C 1G4 > Canada > > chri...@yorku.ca<mailto:chri...@yorku.ca> > > On Feb 7, 2013, at 4:32 PM, "Deborah S. Briihl" > <dbri...@valdosta.edu<mailto:dbri...@valdosta.edu>> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > I know what others have stated, but at this point I would wonder about > this given the second email, which sounds incredibly rude. If you make a > request, then the other person can refuse your request. To then accuse > you of being unprofessional and you should because taxpayers pay our > salary blah, blah, blah would cause some kind of warning bells in me > (and would tick me off). > Deb > Deborah Briihl > Dept of psych and counseling > Valdosta state university > dbri...@valdosta.edu<mailto:dbri...@valdosta.edu> > ,Sent from my iPad > > On Feb 7, 2013, at 1:41 PM, "Rob Weisskirch" > <rweisski...@csumb.edu<mailto:rweisski...@csumb.edu>> wrote: > > > > > > > > TIPSfolk, > > Recently, I got a request for pdfs of two articles I had published. > The request came from someone who identified himself as an "independent > researcher" who claimed not to have access to the two journals > (mainstream ones--none that were esoteric). His email did not include > his last name nor any affiliation. But, it clearly was not spam. > > I wrote back and declined to send them because there was not a clear > affiliation with an university, press, or other organization. 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