{"id":1133,"date":"2020-07-20T05:14:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T05:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2020-09-21T14:48:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T14:48:31","slug":"writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n1. Aphorisms<\/a>
\n1a. Writing Style. <\/a>
\n2. Words<\/a>
\n3. Poems<\/a>
\n4. Useful Stories<\/a>
\n 5. Typos<\/a>
\n6. Quotations.<\/a>
\n7. Rasmapedia <\/a>
\n 8. Wikipedia as a vocation<\/a>
\n 9. Wokefolk Wit and Comment<\/a>
\n 10. Humor. <\/a>
\n11. C. P. Snow, Good Judgement and Winston Churchill<\/a> or HERE<\/a> <\/p>\n

12. Machiavelli, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Their Friends<\/a>
\n12.jkjlkl<\/p>\n

The Biggest Bedroom Is No Longer a \u2018Master\u2019The term\u2019s racist and sexist undertones lead New York\u2019s real estate community and others to rethink outdated industry jargon.<\/a> <\/p>\n

\nThe Real Estate Board of New York plans to vote soon on removing the phrase from its residential listings service,…
\nThe Houston Association of Realtors was the first industry group to decide to stop using \u201cmaster bedroom\u201d in late June, after some members expressed concerns that it could be perceived as racist or sexist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wonder what other eras in history are comparable to ours in utter foolishness. Revolutionary Paris, perhaps. I think of Witch Hunt Salem, but that’s a small town and just for a short time. Maybe America in WW I with the anti-German fever. Maybe the South 1890-1960 with Jim Crow fever. To be fair, we should keep it to educated people, though, who, in any case, rise to heights that the uneducated can’t hope to attain with their more limited tools for coming up with stupid ideas. The realtors remind me very much of the story of the Victorians covering their table legs to prevent indecency, except that the “master bedroom” story is true and the Victorian table legs one is a joke that people took seriously in England because it was anti-American and played to their stereotype of Americans as puritans, in itself a precursor of the Twitter rumor. See The Victorians Didn\u2019t Cover Their Table Legs<\/a>
\nBY KNOWLEDGENUTS, JUL 21, 2013.<\/p>\n

\nThe story of Victorians and their horror of unexposed piano legs keeps cropping up, presented as fact in books and television shows. The origin can be traced to Frederick Marryat, <\/strong>author of numerous popular sea adventures and other works. His travelogue, Diary in America; With Remarks On Its Institutions,<\/em> published in 1839,<\/strong> was written during a tour of the U.S. While there, Marryat visited a girls\u2019 seminary where he discovered the piano\u2019s legs were shrouded in little ruffled pantaloons. <\/strong>The headmistress told him she\u2019d covered the legs to \u201cpreserve in their utmost purity the ideas of the young ladies under her charge.\u201d<\/strong>
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\nEither the headmistress was something of a kook or Marryat got punked. There\u2019s no evidence in the historic record that this supposed custom was widespread. In fact, the pretty pantaloons were most likely dust covers, concealing damage, or mere decoration.
\n
\nThe British press at the time picked up Marryat\u2019s story and ran with it,<\/strong> since American society and its straight-laced, puritanical, overly fastidious, ludicrous manners were considered gauche and far inferior to their cousins across the Pond.\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. Aphorisms 1a. Writing Style. 2. Words 3. Poems 4. Useful Stories 5. Typos 6. Quotations. 7. Rasmapedia 8. Wikipedia as a vocation 9. Wokefolk Wit and Comment 10. Humor. 11. C. P. Snow, Good Judgement and Winston Churchill or HERE 12. Machiavelli, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Their Friends 12.jkjlkl The Biggest Bedroom Is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2272,"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions\/2272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}