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Will someone vouchsafe to me the name of a writer and his or her works in which the author describes the attributes of food. Also, where can I find a list of words that describe the attributes--smell, taste, texture, sight--of food?
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A tad off topic, but what about Patrick Suskind's Perfume - wonderfully descriptive in the 'smell' arena and not a little disturbing!
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Your first topic (and most others you or anyone could ever dream up) will likely be found through Google. For your second, please go here and click on the link in the opening post. This is an amazing resource page for which I once again offer my thanks to MaxQ.
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There was a wonderful food writer by the name of M.F.K. Fischer (or Fisher). She examined the cultural, social and, yes, the spiritual relevance of food. Her works can be found in public libraries and in discerning book shops.
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Happy birthday Bohemian_Cur. : )
(Or, if it's not your birthday, why is there a birthday cake next to your name?)
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Excuse my pedantry if you do not like pedantry. Today is the nine-teenth anniversary of my birthday. I am now nine-teen years.
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Excuse my pedantry if you do not like pedantry. Today is the nine-teenth anniversary of my birthday. I am now nine-teen years. You'll outgrow it, Cur. Or either you'll become obnoxious in your old age. Signed, former young know-it-all pedant
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The problem with the whole take on pedantry, as I have been experiencing it, is that the one half who call another a pedant with negative connotations do so because they either have not employed themselves to study, or have not the understanding to be one themselves, or at least respect the studious kind for their understanding. The other half, where I might put myself, are irritated by those who do not understand. If there is a feud, it is because the one half does not understand and the other half is not understood. Slang is sluggish; because the world calls one's anniversary their birthday does not make me a obnoxious for correcting. They are wrong; it is not difficult to call it what it simply is: one's anniversary. Maybe the hatred of pedantry spawns from the growing characteristic of being lazy and stupid. My mother constantly yells at me when I tell her double negatives are horrid. If she knew the word, she might call me a pedant. "You know what I mean, all the same. Just shut up!" I usually hear more for telling her why superfluous prepositions are worse. Eh... I will be hated, but I will be correct. And the pure joy of being servile to truth might deem me an artist, a lonely one it seems, but I cannot reason to do otherwise.
"Truth is the only master to serve. Serve her and damn the multitude!"
Am I mad?
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because the world calls one's anniversary their birthday does not make me a obnoxious for correcting.
If you call the anniversary of your birth your anniversary you will not be understood. There are too many things that an anniversary could be an anniversary of. If it doesn't bother you that people don't understand you when you refer to the anniversary of your birth as your anniversary, fine. If you wish to be understood you should at least refer to it as the anniversary of your birth. You could also call it your birthday and people will understand you. To insist on obsolete usages at the expense of understanding is just nice.
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Was yesterday my birthday? No. To call it my birthday would make me one day old. That persons resort to such strange usages of language is silly. If calling yesterday my nine-teenth anniversary is obsolete, then the new is wrong and the old is best--in this case, at least; and if persons do not understand me when I say that, they clearly are ignorant of something that should be generally known.
My parents were married 19 years ago, and tomorrow will be the first day of their 20th year. Is tomorrow their wedding day? Ha! No. Silly conventions are just that: silly.
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