For homework, please:
- have a look at this video on visual effects and 1) write 10 vocab items coming from the field of programming and visual effects and 2) answer the question, "How has visual effects technology changed since the 1980s?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz7_QqqFt9w
- read the essays "True Style Defies Globalization" and "The Homogenization Effect" on this website on comment on the quality of writing in the areas of vocabulary/word choice, grammar/sentence structure, organization, thesis, and detail/data/examples. (Please be specific and don't simply write "grammar is good in general.")
- complete exercises E-J on pp. 89-91.
- complete exercises F-P on pp. 96-99.
Journals will be returned to you on Monday, so please get a friend to pick yours up for you if you know you won't be attending class.
Question from class:
"To damn with faint praise" is indeed an expression meaning to comment on something in a seemingly complimentary manner, but using language that in fact thinly veils your disdain. I grew up with this phenomenon being called a "backhanded compliment." In modern parlance, we might call this "throwing shade" ;-).
Example from class: "She looks good for forty."
(From the Collins dictionary) Dominique damned it with faint praise : 'It tastes quite good when you've lived in the UK for 22 years.'
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