Max,
Here's the link to the most precisely edited version of Jerry Seinfeld's "sucks<>great" routine. Still "great" the second time around.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fgowvzfQ9U&feature=related
Barry
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 11:20:17 +1000, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>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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