Hey Josh, On 5/2/23 05:59, josh wrote: [...]
> Here's a relevant passage about the origin of the phrase from > https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/ventilated-prose, > >> In the 1930s Buckminster Fuller (he of the domes, but also of many other >> things) was doing research for the Phelps Dodge Corporation. His boss could >> not read Fuller’s reports, but found them perfectly intelligible when read >> aloud by the author. >> >> For Fuller's own account, see below. >> [...] >> The Director said, "I am having two poets for >> dinner tonight and I will take this to them and see what they say." He >> returned the next day and said, "It’s too bad — it’s poetry." :-) Heh! Branden wasn't enthusiastic my emails when I wrote poetry in them, though :/ Any chance we can warn users that they should write poems, not prose? $ cat poem.mdoc .Dd May 3, 2023 .Dt POEM 7 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm poem .Nd not really .Sh DESCRIPTION Am I really writing a poem? No, I'm not. Or am I? $ mandoc -mdoc -Tlint poem.mdoc mandoc: poem.mdoc:8:44: WARNING: new sentence, new line $ my_mandoc -mdoc -Tlint poem.mdoc mandoc: poem.mdoc:8:44: WARNING: write poems, not prose Just kidding, but technically, it's probably more accurate, and more fun. Cheers, Alex > > Sorry to drone on about it, I just think it's very amusing :). > > Josh -- <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/> GPG key fingerprint: A9348594CE31283A826FBDD8D57633D441E25BB5
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