*** *** *** *** *** *** CONFERENCE UPDATE: CCHA NATIONAL CONFERENCE Baltimore, MD: 11/9 - 11/11 The Community College Humanities Association’s 2017 National Conference: Breaking Boundaries: The Humanities Reimagined still has general registrations available! Speakers include: D. Watkins, former drug dealer and now Salon columnist and Johns Hopkins Professor Janine di Giovanni, Edward Murrow Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Affairs and former Newsweek Middle East Editor Bert Phillips, former Dean of Students at the Tuskegee Institute and chair of the Africa United States Partnership Fund Plus, speakers and sessions focusing on NEH opportunities, ACLS opportunities, the Library of Congress, Fulbright, and more. Learn about how to publish your work in CCHA’s Community College Humanities Review Journal. For more: https://www.cchumanities.org/conferences/national/ *** *** *** *** *** *** On Oct 19, 2017, at 12:00 AM, ATEG automatic digest system <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: There is 1 message totaling 59 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. McSweeney's piece on making the active passive To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 10:39:49 -0400 From: Nick Carbone <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Subject: McSweeney's piece on making the active passive This might be fun to teach from or with: An Interactive Guide to Ambiguous Grammar by Vijith Assar https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-ambiguous-grammar The writer walks through a series of edits to "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog," each edited, with explanation, making the sentence more passive and unaccountable. -- nick.carbone at gmail dot com http://ncarbone.blogspot.com To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/ ------------------------------ End of ATEG Digest - 25 Sep 2017 to 18 Oct 2017 (#2017-20) ********************************************************** To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/