Meredith Turits
A twenty-something, Brooklyn-based writer/magazine editor's chronicle of her first novel, peppered with thoughts on the words and streets that make her heart race.

Twitter: @meredithturits

This newly-garnered notion of inherent parts of speech is going to either save my life or drive me so crazy that it’ll kill me.  I can’t believe I never realised how many verbs have other verbs linked to them intrinsically - such as those that include things like “be,” or “go.”  And then there are, of course, the nouns that are inherent, too - when you talk, you have to talk about something, so it needn’t be said if it’s not specific.  I can’t believe how many words I’m going to save - a notion so precious to me - but also how nuts this is going to drive me as I’m editing others’ articles.

Who needs a man when you have syntax and semantics?

Tuesday, February 3rd 2009 12:11am