(The spondee is proved mathematically not to exist)." As for Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Delmore Schwartz and Sylvia Plath, they elicit this cruel and self-consciously clever put-down: "To any of them nothing mattered more than the ticker tape that carried the stock market quotation of their status.
As Aditya Chakrabortty recently pointed out on Comment is free, Facebook forces you to define yourself within its own narrow categories: relationship status, favourite books, a quotation – a nerd's idea of a rounded personality.
Illustrative quotations are annotated according to TB status: Patients diagnosed as having TB (Pt) or symptomatic person with negative smear-microscopy (Neg) and sex.
At university, it felt like every noticeboard, laptop case and Facebook status displayed one Roald Dahl quotation: "A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
The opinions expressed by most of the respondents on the influence of economic status are encapsulated in the quotation of a 15-19 year old male.
Invented a half-century ago, and subsequently popularized and decontextualized in scores of quotation dictionaries, such rules had acquired an iconic status by the time I got around to tracing them back to their roots.
The respondents' personal details are omitted, but basic information on their village and their socio-economic status is included next to each quotation to allow the reader to appreciate the variety of backgrounds and experiences included in the sample.
From your phone, text "Off" (but remove the "quotation" marks) to the number you send your Facebook Status updates too.
United Kingdom From stylebook: This formal name is not ordinarily used except in quotations, or in contexts requiring emphasis on Northern Ireland's status.
This matching enabled the author to merge individual tag number [identity], marital status and group number in each transcript for quotations.
