On 8/04/11 6:05 AM, "Barry Alpert" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
I
> immediately thought of Jerry Seinfeld's stunning recent stand-up comedy
> routine in which he argues that the terms of evaluative criticism have shrunk
> to the dichotomy, "It's great"<>"It sucks".
When teaching, I sometimes tried to elicit from my students just what their
vocabulary of evaluation consisted of, as something we might build on.
Me: this line of Keats, now, is it aaah yummy? Or do you reckon its yucky?
These terms figured in their vocab all right, but applying it to language
tended to stymie them.
Max
I wonder if the Seinfeld routine is on the internet yet...?
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