39: How to Rite Gooder

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

4.5 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, A.J. gives some tips on Style, the third canon of rhetoric. If followed, these tips will improve your prose.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to classical stuff you should know, a classical podcast by classical educators.
0:13.9	And you know what, Hanenberg, because you have been so critical of my intros, I actually wrote down an introduction on paper. What? Oh, my word.
0:24.3	Hello, welcome to classical stuff you should know. Classical stuff you should know is a podcast.
0:30.5	Classical stuff you should know is good. Classical stuff you should know is a very, very, very cool and wonderful podcast of learning. Classical stuff you
0:41.8	should know is what we are going to do now. Hanenberg, how is my writing? You thought this would
0:48.2	make me less critical somehow? Did you think that that was a well-crafted piece of prose?
0:55.5	I can't say I did.
0:57.5	Oh, man, if there was only a way that I could learn to make a well-crafted piece of prose,
1:05.1	I would listen to that if it existed.
1:09.4	What am I to do?
1:16.7	Well, let me tell you. Thanks for that segue. All right. So today, you sound defeated right now. I'm just so sad. We didn't even
1:25.3	mention who we are. Oh, sorry. So my name is Graham Donaldson. I'm a classical
1:29.5	educator at Veritas Academy in Austin, Texas, and I am joined today with Thomas Magby, who is the dean of
1:35.2	fun, and with AJ Hanenberg. I'm sorry, Lord Arthur Jan Hanenberg. The second. The second.
1:41.2	Is that true? My grandpa was named Arthur. I don't know.
1:45.0	Can I count myself as the second if he wasn't a lord?
1:47.0	Oh.
1:48.0	Yes, you can.
1:49.0	Yeah, you can.
1:50.0	Because you're a lord after you're born.
1:51.0	Yeah, I'm Lord Arthur the second.
1:53.0	Yeah.
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