[lit-ideas] Re: Book Your Airline Tickets Now
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 11:30:25 -0700
On Nov 5, 2011, at 6:28 AM, Judith Evans wrote:
> >>Here's what happens to your gestural ability when you get tucked into the
> >>Scottish diet:
>
> >Perhaps I should have written "one's" gestural ability? Poncy perhaps, but
> >otherwise I >think it may sound hostile.
>
> Particularly as some of us eschew deep-fried pizza?! -- "one"'s underused
> now; "you" certainly can be ambiguous.
>
> I'm pondering the Welsh diet. I'd say its deficiencies correlate with
> poverty, lack of education, and so on. "Eat like the (Southern) English"
> isn't that sensible an exhortation, perhaps.
>
Here's one among several current U.S. responses to the problem.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/23/foods-new-foot-soldiers/
http://bittman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/25/foodcorps-service-members-speak/
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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