Ep 015 - The Elements of Style, by Strunk & White

Overdue

Headgum

Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2013

⏱️ 55 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Whether or not you've read The Elements of Style, the writing rules and techniques you learned in grade school likely came from Strunk and White’s “little book.”

Craig had never read the book, and he thought chatting up Andrew – who gets paid to put words on the Internet – about S&W’s various axioms might prove entertaining.

Join us as we (dis)agree on a few key rules, chat incessantly about segues/segways, and tie ourselves in linguistic knots.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well told tale,
0:05.0	they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:10.0	Plus, these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.0	Hello and welcome to Overdoot. This is a podcast about the books that you've been
0:40.0	meaning to read. My name is Craig.
0:42.0	My name is Andrew.
0:44.0	And maybe you haven't been meaning to read them, but we've been meaning to read them.
0:47.0	I always think about that after I say that each week.
0:50.0	It's a pretty good tag, but sometimes I think it might be a bit of a misnomer.
0:53.0	It's like the royal you. It refers to all of us.
0:58.0	I don't think it's the royal you.
1:03.0	I'm also not sure if I use the word misnomer correctly back there.
1:08.0	But how did you use it? Lay it on me again.
1:11.0	I used it in reference to an entire phrase.
1:14.0	I don't think you can do that.
1:15.0	Oh no, I don't know.
1:16.0	I think you just said it bad.
1:18.0	I don't think it's.
1:19.0	I just just talked bad.
1:22.0	What I misspoke.
1:23.0	I think it's what maybe what you wanted.
1:25.0	All right. Well, yeah.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Headgum, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Headgum and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.