tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post7834750131456282901..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: CFP for Kzoo 2010: The Glamour of GrammarCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-69184959779963304962009-07-21T20:25:51.805-04:002009-07-21T20:25:51.805-04:00Beautiful session, congratulations, applause, and ...Beautiful session, congratulations, applause, and bows to Organizers! And gorgeous comment. Seduction by grammar. . . I am thinking Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto. . .anna klosowskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09611569607945164280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-8607976211057117642009-07-21T14:10:17.647-04:002009-07-21T14:10:17.647-04:00"Seduction by Grammar"... BGE, I love it..."Seduction by Grammar"... BGE, I love it!ihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14105686105741162480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-46051130019724071852009-07-21T10:57:17.408-04:002009-07-21T10:57:17.408-04:00The supposed banality of grammar calls to mind Nie...The supposed banality of grammar calls to mind Nietzsche preface, and the remarkable seduction of Grammar:<br /><br /><i>"Speaking seriously, there are good reasons why all philosophical dogmatizing, however solemn and definitive its airs used to be, may nevertheless have been no more than a noble childishness and tyronism. And perhaps the time is at hand when it will be comprehended again and again how little used to be sufficient to furnish the cornerstone for such sublime and unconditional philosophers' edifices as the dogmatists have built so far: any old popular superstition from time immemorial (like the soul superstition which, in the form of the subject and ego superstition, has not even yet ceased to do mischief); some play on words perhaps, <b>a seduction by grammar</b>, or an audacious generalization of very narrow, very personal, very human, all too human facts."</i><br /><br />- BGE<br /><br />Something of which Wittgenstein made quite a big deal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-60006937618378063122009-07-21T10:54:40.143-04:002009-07-21T10:54:40.143-04:00Thank you, Karl, for posting this. I should probab...Thank you, Karl, for posting this. I should probably also mention that this session had Babel-ey beginnings -- it was at Nicola's "Glossing is Glorious" conference that Erik and I realised we share an interest in grammarous literature!ihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14105686105741162480noreply@blogger.com