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Thomas Morlion 2JourA English Assignment: The Style Guide Van Gogh, Vincent (18

Thomas Morlion 2JourA English Assignment: The Style Guide Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-90) Dutch artist; note that as with most Dutch names it is Van Gogh when just the surname is used (a Van Gogh masterpiece) but van Gogh with the forename (a masterpiece by Vincent van Gogh) (The Guardian style guide)  I find it rather surprising the Guardian style guide advises to write most Dutch names with a “Van” without a capital. Most people I know that have such a name, write their names with a capital letter „V‟. When we look for an example in our class: Bert Van Steenberghe. His surname starts with a major letter V. I would call the rule in this style guide not as accurate as they are might state. Overwhelm means submerge utterly, crush, bring to sudden ruin. Majority votes, for example, seldom do any of these things. As for the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, although 90% of the population, they turned out to be an overwhelmed majority, not an overwhelming one, until NATO stepped in. (The Economist style guide)  I have always thought to overwhelm meant „overdonderen‟, and that it was used commonly. So it comes as a surprise that a majority isn‟t always overwhelming. I suppose a success can‟t be overwhelming as well, then. The fact that the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo were overwhelmed, is another (historical) discussion. Zeugma: A figure of speech in which, typically, a single verb is used to yoke together two or more parts of a sentence with different meanings. Some examples: - "The queen takes counsel and tea" (Pope). - "Mr Pickwick took his hat and his leave" (Dickens) - "The following year, in Sing Your Worries Away, she played a stripper, taking off her clothes and her sister." (Ronald Bergan, in a 2010 Guardian obituary of June Havoc, Gypsy Rose Lee's sister) (The Guardian style guide)  I like this figure of speech. It‟s not always as simple as it looks to think of sentences like the above, and I often consider it art or literature. It‟s a witty technique. Grammatical, it‟s not okay, but as a rhetorical figure, it shows great talent in creativity, I think. Drum’n’bass, rock’n’roll (The Guardian style guide)  These two words are often misspelled (also by me). But if you think about it, two letters are erased: the „a‟ and „d‟ of „and‟. Where you leave these letters out, you put an omission sign. Not hard at all. It is only strange that „rhythm and blues‟ is fully written. uploads/s3/ style-guide 4 .pdf