Entries associated with the tag "Time":

From the Daily Bellwether: "Somehow, the Ohio General Assembly has gotten into the act with a law that limits access to certain public records about people who have gun permits to journalists. Big News and its industry lobbyists and editors helped craft the law. Meanwhile, [the word] novelist has not been hijacked. It means someone who is writing a novel. Author still means writer. Poet means someone who works in verse. Diarist is someone who keeps a diary. Many bloggers publish web logs, which is a recent arrival in the digital-era lexicon that describes an electronic journal. But journalists -- writers who record daily events, who journalize -- apparently can work only in journalism, which has come to be defined by the big media as the big media." (H/t Munir Urami at The Blogging Journalist.)

Quite aside from the personal interest of those of us who lack any credential other than experience, should the government even be in the business of certifying those who can get information or ask questions? Too much like judging its own case.

And it's not as though the credentialed have distinguished themselves. Environmental Journalism Now rips Time a new one for photofaking.

Last year the journal Social Research had a special issue on "busyness," in which Robert Levine, a professor of psychology at California State University, Fresno, wrote:

"Many people use their social activities to mark time rather than the other way around. In parts of Madagascar, questions about how long something takes might receive an answer like 'the time of a rice cooking' (about half an hour) or 'the frying of a locust' (a quick moment).  Similarly, natives of the Cross River in Nigeria have been quoted as saying 'the man died in less than the time in which maize is not yet completely roasted' (less than fifteen minutes).  Closer to home, not too many years ago the New English Dictionary included a listing for the term 'pissing while'--not a particularly exact measurement, perhaps, but one with a certain cross-cultural translatability."  (It's in the Oxford English Dictionary, which cites usages as far back as Shakespeare.)

Does anyone have personal experience with marking time this way, rather than clockwise?