Archive for category: Russell Smith

Russell Smith, novelist/amateur lexicographer/style guru

Sub-literate debate about decline in literature    (2021.07.01)

Lydia Perović (no relation) interviews Russell Smith, and gets everything wrong that could be gotten wrong, from facts to copy to mondegreens to ‘apostrophes and ‘quotation marks’

Russell Smith changes his mind, apparently    (2015.03.14)

A mere 18 years later, Russell Smith changes his mind about Bruce LaBruce

Somebody buy Russell Smith an iPad    (2012.03.11)

Novelist/columnist/journalist/bon vivant Russell Smith needs to quit dramatically bemoaning that his literary career is over the next time he suffers a retinal detachment. Instead, he needs an iPad

Russell Smith’s visual impairment    (2011.08.25)

Russell Smith’s retinal detachment led him to complain that possible tasks are impossible. Let’s help him out!

Wannabe Brit laments Canadian English    (2011.06.21)

Here we have what is easily the dumbest thing written about English linguistics in ’011

Russell Smith: ‘Grammar Wars’    (2011.06.10)

Russell Smith spoke to magazine editors about usage. They ought to be careful following his advice

Character rot    (2008.08.10)

Somebody tell Russell Smith how to Save As… in MS Word

Smith myths    (2007.12.27)

Russell Smith takes partial credit for making woot a star

Another way in which to fail at ‘monetizing one’s intelligence’    (2007.08.09)

Russell Smith asks: Why is nobody willing to pay us for it?