Monday, November 15, 2010
A digit is not always a number
Illustration for a Berkeley Monthly article about a teacher explaining the term "digit" to middle-school students. Unfortunately, this particular teacher confused "lie" and "lay" unintentionally in the text of the article - gnashing of teeth, rending of garments here. Sigh.
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The interpretations of this one could be endless. Plenty of page 273 dictionary fun to be had. What is she trying to diffuse?
cool
Just love your works!
I take it this is your graphic. I love the elegance of it. Perhaps you should recommend Strunk & White's "The Elements of Style"?
Lovely illustration.
Really like this one. Language can be so much fun.
Drove by Home Depot and they had a sign out that had an apostrophe used maliciously... Every time I drove by, I had to look, but I really wished that I had the self control NOT to...
...like a dead squirrel...
totally love this!
I love this silhouette style :)
The silhouette is such a classically elegant visual - remembering the inside covers of my mother's Nancy Drew mysteries from the 1930's.
Something elegantly fifties about that image.
I like the illo. LIe and lay are not easy. I try to avoid them. :)
Great job, Susan!
As always.!
nice illo!
never used that particular abbrev before.
I suppose there was a time when "digital" meant "manipulated by hand."
breaking out the oed
Thanks for stopping by ... good to be back in touch again. I love that kitty climbing t-shirt design! Great idea.
Yes, gnashing of teeth indeed! I love the lion guardian picture. Thanks for being a faithful blogger and providing such inspiration.
i always mess up lie and lay too. Well, here is a good use for those old dusty dictionaries. I don't remember the last time i had mine out.
Love this, particularly the framing and obscuring of text.
And ooh, ooh, my parcel's on its way!
ha,
maybe you could flip the digit at him..
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