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I hope no one misinterprets my quasi-joke as anything less than total love and respect for Mr. Williams.
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I was attempting what they call in journalism "burying the lede." (I still don't know why it's lede and not lead; I first heard the term in Broadcast News. I should probably look it up).
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According to Wiktionary:
Mid-20th century neologism from a deliberate misspelling of lead, intended to avoid confusion with its homograph meaning a strip of type metal used for positioning type in the frame.[1] Compare hed (“headline”) and dek (“subhead”).
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I was attempting what they call in journalism "burying the lede." (I still don't know why it's lede and not lead; I first heard the term in Broadcast News. I should probably look it up).
ADDED:
According to Wiktionary:
Mid-20th century neologism from a deliberate misspelling of lead, intended to avoid confusion with its homograph meaning a strip of type metal used for positioning type in the frame.[1] Compare hed (“headline”) and dek (“subhead”).
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I never knew it was "lede" until now, because I've only heard it, never read it. Now that I know, I will do my best to forget it, since I sometimes speak it but to date have never had to write it. (And I'll bet if I ever do write "bury the lede" to a friend they'll correct my spelling/typo or else ask me what the hell is a lede. But thanks -- I learn something new every day.)
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Yeah, it's really confusing that it means "lead" but is spelled "lede" for reasons known only to journalism history.
But since it actually does mean "lead," I don't think you could call "lede" a typo.
(Still trying to figure how to defend my inexplicable love for John Frankenheimer's Prophecy).
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Yeah, it's really confusing that it means "lead" but is spelled "lede" for reasons known only to journalism history.
But since it actually does mean "lead," I don't think you could call "lede" a typo.
(Still trying to figure how to defend my inexplicable love for John Frankenheimer's Prophecy).
"Typo" was me joking about an inaginary friend's possible reaction. But get this -- What's the first thing I see this morning in my New York Times? A book review that begins with these words: "WHY BURY THE LEDE?"
What are the odds?!
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"A lot o' people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch o' unconnected incidents 'n things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice o' coincidence that lays on top o' everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconsciousness."
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"A lot o' people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch o' unconnected incidents 'n things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice o' coincidence that lays on top o' everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconsciousness."
Whose name comes after the quotation marks? I'm not all that well-read...
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It's Tracey Walter's speech from the 1984 movie Repo Man.
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It's Tracey Walter's speech from the 1984 movie Repo Man.
Thanks! Only saw (and very much enjoyed) it once many years ago...
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I saw it again a decade or so and it actually holds up pretty well (especially considering that, unlike my younger co-workers, I don't think of the 1980s as a decade of great cinema, and that was actually when I was employed in the industry proper).
I think of that speech as the definitive reference for the way that weird coincidences/concurrences/synchronicity tend to occur in life, but I suspect there may be better examples.
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