How would you word the consent form for these subjects, just out of
curiosity?
Candice
on 8/3/01 2:05 AM, Mark Weiss at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> I've been thinking on it for two days, and I've finally come up with the
> next research project for the authors of the pronoun study. Reading the
> past is rather less useful than reading the future. Perhaps they could read
> the complete works of say 2000 living poets, balanced for social class and
> aesthetic principles, and predict which would commit suicide, and when.
> Check back in 10 years for the results.
>
> Mark
>
> At 01:04 AM 8/3/2001 -0400, Candice Ward wrote:
>> on 8/1/01 7:26 AM, Matthew Francis at [log in to unmask]
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I can't get stop writing in the second person - don't like to think what
> this
>>> says about my state of mind. My second persons tend to be a cross between
>>> 'you' the reader and the impersonal 'you' meaning 'one'. I hate the fashion
>>> for writing to a *specific* second person and telling them things they know
>>> already. You know the kind of thing:
>>>
>>> Grandmother, you were only 18
>>> when you married.
>>> Once you told me
>>> how you loved making jam
>>> better than making love...
>>
>>
>> A Brief Encomium to Matthew Francis in the Second Person
>>
>> You
>> First
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