Some google-fu and http://bit.ly/OJALPO It seems to be a word he likes and uses well.
Some google-fu and http://bit.ly/OJALPO It seems to be a word he likes and uses well.
I'm occasionally downright embarrassed by HNSearch. Easy example searches to demonstrate include [ROFLstomp], [pathological customer], [patio11 "charge more"], etc. Or, if you want things that take a little effort to spot, you can see that I really, really like parenthetical statements (one English teacher of mine estimated that I used them 20x more than her reference sets... oh, there I go again) and extended surprise expectation inversion as a device, particularly in introductions.
A related issue is that these two interviews were recorded with a 30 second break in between and, since the topics are spiritually adjacent and our memories were fresh, we both recycled good turns of phrase and ideas from the previous interview.
Teen pregnancy. School stabbings. Teacher abuse scandals. Classroom mayhem. Flat test scores. Declining graduation rates. It's enough to make Japanese parents wish their kids went to school in America.
(That is pretty much verbatim from an essay I wrote in college. I use this trick a lot.)
And I thought I was the only one (I have the same habit). It does make Lisp seem more familiar, though (rather than "ack, too many parentheses!").
P.S. Was surprised you didn't give out your summoner name on the last article. You probably could've gotten enough free RP for Midnight Ahri or whatever.
Pet example: "They paid me motivational sums of money".
(Oh, and yes Patrick, you're starting to develop a serious cult following).