In the arts and humanities, we read conference papers aloud because the precise, carefully crafted - often beautiful - prose is integral to the paper. A speaker cannot be expected to memorise 4,000+ words verbatim. There are good and bad ways of reading such papers. /
If only a young, perceptive, recently Oscar-nominated movie star had warned people of the dangers of turning movies into unattainable elite events like other art forms like ballet and opera are now
I routinely make the point that dictionary editors are not the arbiters of how people ought to speak. Their role should be purely descriptive. Every sensible person knows that biopic rhymes with myopic, and the Merriam-Webster people have no authority to say otherwise.
@sweetseaslug out of the corner of my eye i glimpsed a circular representation of my surroundings, but it rotated as i did, and i wished that independently of my bearing the minimap would point north, i mean the circular representation would point north