Looks great. The only question I have is should it be "African Americans WHO have medals" instead of that have? Tressa or Hunter can probably best answer that.
Oh, Richard. Here's another idea for a video: You know how everyone associates Alabama with illiteracy, shotgun shacks, and bare feet?
You could play the banjo music from Deliverance and flash on the screen all the statistics about how many branches and materials we have; how many patrons come through the libraries every year; the awards we've won; our respected Gov't Docs, Southern History, and Archives depts., etc. LOL. I think it would be a hit. ;)
Oh, I'm about to leave but I'll check that out, Melinda. I thought I read it carefully enough.
I believe there is a rule about placing a hyphen between African Americans if it's used as an adjective. But there are differing opinions on this "rule."
The "African Americans WHO have medals" seems to be a gray area and both may be okay.
Grammer Girl (grammar.quickanddirtytips.com) states, " ...there is a long history of writers using that as a relative pronoun when writing about people. Chaucer did it, for example."
Melinda, I know. The African American hyphenate question was one I was looking into at the same time. I guess my comment wasn't very clear. Sorry.
About the hyphen between African Americans, here's what I use: Although it is traditional to hyphenate “African-American,” “Irish-American,” “Cuban-American,” etc., there is a recent trend toward omitting the hyphen, possibly in reaction to the belittling phrase “hyphenated Americans.” However, some styles still call for the hyphen when the phrase is used adjectivally, so that you might be an African American who enjoys African-American writers. Omitting the hyphen may puzzle some readers, but it’s not likely to offend anyone.
Richard, you gotta love Grammar Girl. I'm a stickler for using "who" when speaking about human beings and "that" when speaking about animals or objects. I think this has been the answer in most of the other online sources I use.
Guess our Style Manual Committee is going to come in handy.
Richard, I bet you could do something fun with the barefoot, illiterate Southerner idea. I can't stand that stereotype about us. But I'm just as guilty. When I was a kid I thought ALL Eskimos lived in igloos and ALL Mexicans lived in adobe huts.
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Richard, this is one of my favorite videos you've done. Very clever, clean, and concise. Well done!
Looks great. The only question I have is should it be "African Americans WHO have medals" instead of that have? Tressa or Hunter can probably best answer that.
Oh, Richard. Here's another idea for a video: You know how everyone associates Alabama with illiteracy, shotgun shacks, and bare feet?
You could play the banjo music from Deliverance and flash on the screen all the statistics about how many branches and materials we have; how many patrons come through the libraries every year; the awards we've won; our respected Gov't Docs, Southern History, and Archives depts., etc. LOL. I think it would be a hit. ;)
Oh, I'm about to leave but I'll check that out, Melinda. I thought I read it carefully enough.
I believe there is a rule about placing a hyphen between African Americans if it's used as an adjective. But there are differing opinions on this "rule."
Tressa my question is about whether to use who or that for the question about the medals.
The "African Americans WHO have medals" seems to be a gray area and both may be okay.
Grammer Girl (grammar.quickanddirtytips.com) states, " ...there is a long history of writers using that as a relative pronoun when writing about people. Chaucer did it, for example."
Tressa, I like the bare fee vs. Awards ideas too.
That idea could be very funny.
Melinda, I know. The African American hyphenate question was one I was looking into at the same time. I guess my comment wasn't very clear. Sorry.
About the hyphen between African Americans, here's what I use:
Although it is traditional to hyphenate “African-American,” “Irish-American,” “Cuban-American,” etc., there is a recent trend toward omitting the hyphen, possibly in reaction to the belittling phrase “hyphenated Americans.” However, some styles still call for the hyphen when the phrase is used adjectivally, so that you might be an African American who enjoys African-American writers. Omitting the hyphen may puzzle some readers, but it’s not likely to offend anyone.
Richard, you gotta love Grammar Girl. I'm a stickler for using "who" when speaking about human beings and "that" when speaking about animals or objects. I think this has been the answer in most of the other online sources I use.
Guess our Style Manual Committee is going to come in handy.
Richard, I bet you could do something fun with the barefoot, illiterate Southerner idea. I can't stand that stereotype about us. But I'm just as guilty. When I was a kid I thought ALL Eskimos lived in igloos and ALL Mexicans lived in adobe huts.
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