Official Mundy Out OverThePylon In

[TexasDeac10]

This conversation is over.

Well yeah, this Mundy thread has jumped the shark, but you have to admit it's pretty funny that it's ending with some SWEET grammar and style lessons which Mundy should (but I suspect doesn't) give to BSD.

To TexasDeac's point, writing rules are more like pirate law (guidelines) than hard decrees, but poor writing can only be identified with the framework of rules to guide us as readers of language.

Here's a post you made the other day with a sentence ending in a preposition. Looks like you're burning the very framework of modern communication to cinders. TO CINDERS.

Exactly. Pirate law, you guys! It's okay to flout the "rule" when making stylistic choices. Irish's point, I take it, is that we nonetheless need a rubric for what makes writing good or bad. I submit that it's not antiquated grammar rules, but the quality and clarity of the ideas.

 

[bigdoublezero]

It's lazy. I can do better. We all can do better!

Cool. You keep fighting the good fight as a prescriptivist clinging to a rule that was never even a rule in the first place. Language will steamroll right past you and me and continue to do its thing.

"Where's your brain at" is poor writing because it's redundant. "The meeting you set up" is not because it's not. :noidea:

 

[IrishSlim]

Can we all agree that the Oxford/Harvard comma must be saved, no matter the cost?

 

[TexasDeac10]

It's lazy. I can do better. We all can do better!

This is easily the most affable, cheerful Irish post I can remember. And that's amazing, because I know he's probably hungover right now.

#ClawsIN!

 

[IrishSlim]

Cool. You keep fighting the good fight as a prescriptivist clinging to a rule that was never even a rule in the first place. Language will steamroll right past you and me and continue to do its thing.

"Where's your brain at" is poor writing because it's redundant. "The meeting you set up" is not because it's not. :noidea:

Language can't steamroll.

That's lazy writing.

 

[TexasDeac10]

Can we all agree that the Oxford/Harvard comma must be saved, no matter the cost?

Yes. Strippers, JFK, and Stalin, man.

 

[bigdoublezero]

Can we all agree that the Oxford/Harvard comma must be saved, no matter the cost?

Thoughtful punctuation is a better goal than SAVE MORE RULES.

 

[DeaconBrews]

can we just go back to talking about mundy and how much he sucks?

 

[IrishSlim]

This is easily the most affable, cheerful Irish post I can remember. And that's amazing, because I know he's probably hungover right now.

#ClawsIN!

Just wait until [Redacted] gets canned. I will LITERALLY type rainbows and sunshine with every post.

 

[DeaconBrews]

Just wait until [Redacted] gets canned. I will LITERALLY type rainbows and sunshine with every post.

 

[bigdoublezero]

can we just go back to talking about mundy and how much he sucks?

I thought this was settled. He's clearly the worst.

 

[IrishSlim]

I know Mr Ickman is off to greener pastures, but how baller would it be if he were to come back to BSD like a returning Bonaparte? With horses and trumpets and shit. Off with Mundy's e-head!

 

[bigdoublezero]

I don't really care enough, but a large e-protest to SB Nation would probably unseat him.

 

[Strickland33]

I thought this was settled. He's clearly the worst.

That's an insult to "the worst." Mundy is somewhere in the neighborhood of "a couple feet above rock bottom," IMO.

 

[IrishSlim]

Honestly, I think Mundy would be fine as a beat dude for a newspaper. He'd still stick it in the masses' eye when he could, and blunder horrendously with editorial interjections, but whatever, that's the norm for journos covering Wake sports. Maybe BSD can help him get something like that.

 

[Strickland33]

Honestly, I think Mundy would be fine as a beat dude for a newspaper. He'd still stick it in the masses' eye when he could, and blunder horrendously with editorial interjections, but whatever, that's the norm for journos covering Wake sports. Maybe BSD can help him get something like that.

What does he do IRL, or is BSD his day job?

 

[HailToTheDeacons]

Your mom is malleable.

 

[siff]

One could make the case that it qualifies as dramatic irony - since the audience, i.e. this board, knew Mundy's fate well before he did. (Et tu, Blogger So Dear?)

But the question you pose is ultimately not purely ironic. According to The Times, "Irony requires an opposing meaning between what’s said and what’s intended." Don't think that's happening here. A coincidence? Yes. A curiosity? For sure. An incongruent oddity? Without a doubt. But not irony, at least not in the traditional sense.

Look what you've done to us, Mundy. You're worse than Alanis Morissette. I HOPE YOU GET GOOD ADVICE THAT YOU JUST DON'T TAAAAAAAAAAKE.

:thumbsup:

 

[siff]

#myballsitch

 

[CumberlandDeac]

What does he do IRL, or is BSD his day job?

He is a sr. data analyst for Primo Water. He also is paid to write for places like BSD, Real Tailgate, among others.