Comments on: Why this is here. http://www.otismaxwell.com/blog/2004/09/why-this-is-here/ Otis Maxwell is a copywriter who likes to mouth off on marketing, technology, food and sundry topics. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:20:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous http://www.otismaxwell.com/blog/2004/09/why-this-is-here/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Anonymous Thu, 09 Sep 2004 18:45:34 +0000 http://www.otismaxwell.com/blog/?p=4#comment-5 Advice from a pretty good writer:<br /><br />"I should consider the speeches of Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus, as preeminent specimens of logic, taste and that sententious brevity which, using not a word to spare, leaves not a moment for inattention to the hearer. Amplification is the vice of modern oratory." --Thomas Jefferson<br /><br />Posted by Bill West Advice from a pretty good writer:

“I should consider the speeches of Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus, as preeminent specimens of logic, taste and that sententious brevity which, using not a word to spare, leaves not a moment for inattention to the hearer. Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.” –Thomas Jefferson

Posted by Bill West

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.otismaxwell.com/blog/2004/09/why-this-is-here/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Anonymous Thu, 09 Sep 2004 17:05:52 +0000 http://www.otismaxwell.com/blog/?p=4#comment-4 This is a test comment. If you want you can post the same way, without joining Blogger, by clicking "comments" then "post a comment" and choosing "anonymous" for your post. After that it would be a polite thing to sign it! This is a test comment. If you want you can post the same way, without joining Blogger, by clicking “comments” then “post a comment” and choosing “anonymous” for your post. After that it would be a polite thing to sign it!

]]> By: Collaboration of Global Citizens http://www.otismaxwell.com/blog/2004/09/why-this-is-here/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Collaboration of Global Citizens Tue, 07 Sep 2004 22:44:52 +0000 http://www.otismaxwell.com/blog/?p=4#comment-3 Loved your purpose!! We shall enjoy reading your motivations even further!!<br /><br />Visita nuestra página si puedes, estamos tratando de mejorarla!<br /><br />CGC Loved your purpose!! We shall enjoy reading your motivations even further!!

Visita nuestra página si puedes, estamos tratando de mejorarla!

CGC

]]> By: Otis Maxwell http://www.otismaxwell.com/blog/2004/09/why-this-is-here/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Otis Maxwell Tue, 07 Sep 2004 22:02:41 +0000 http://www.otismaxwell.com/blog/?p=4#comment-2 Eponymous: it appears I am using this word incorrectly as does each scrivener who scribbles "Sonny Bryan's eponymous barbecue stand" to toss in a little pomposity instead of just typing out the flipping name. <br /><br />Google define: eponymous<br /><br />1. eponymous, eponymic -- (being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym)<br /><br />define: eponym<br />the name of a person for whom something is supposedly named; "Constantine I is the eponym for Constantinople" <br />www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn<br /><br /><br />a name derived from the name of person (real or imaginary) as the name of Alexandria is derived from the name of its founder: Alexander the Great <br />www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn Eponymous: it appears I am using this word incorrectly as does each scrivener who scribbles “Sonny Bryan’s eponymous barbecue stand” to toss in a little pomposity instead of just typing out the flipping name.

Google define: eponymous

1. eponymous, eponymic — (being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym)

define: eponym
the name of a person for whom something is supposedly named; “Constantine I is the eponym for Constantinople”
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn

a name derived from the name of person (real or imaginary) as the name of Alexandria is derived from the name of its founder: Alexander the Great
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn

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