[Kzyxtalk] One graffito, two graffiti.

[Marco McClean]

One graffito, two graffiti.

"In Italian the word graffiti is a plural noun and its singular form is 
graffito. Traditionally, the same distinction has been maintained in 
English, so that graffiti, being plural, would require a plural verb, as 
in: the graffiti were all over the wall. By the same token, the singular 
would require a singular verb, as in: there was a graffito on the wall. 
Today, these distinctions survive in some specialist fields such as 
archaeology but sound odd to most native speakers. The most common 
modern use is to treat graffiti as if it were a mass noun, similar to a 
word like writing, and not to use graffito at all. In this case, 
graffiti takes a singular verb, as in: the graffiti was all over the 
wall. Such uses are now widely accepted as standard. A similar process 
is going on with other words such as agenda, data, and media."

That being said, the recording of last night's (2017-03-17) pretty good 
KNYO Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show is ready to download for 
free and enjoy, via http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com

Here's something so personally outrageous that it's actually kind of 
cool: You'll recall how there's been a problem with, sometimes, my show 
not being picked up in progress and going out on KMEC Ukiah from 
midnight to 3am the way Sid Cooperrider set things up there. KNYO Fort 
Bragg has been very reliable since the repairs on both KNYO's end and my 
end, wherever I am, even when I'm doing the show from Juanita's 
apartment. When I put on something recorded and have a moment to check, 
KNYO is always playing what I'm sending. Okay, just after midnight last 
night, while Rich Alcott's /Attention Deficit News/ was on my box and 
demonstrably squirting out through KNYO's transmitter, I went to KMEC 
via TuneIn.com and it was playing not Rich Alcott but instead some kind 
of hip-hop music. This has happened before. I emailed Sid, asked him to 
look into it, and went back to doing my show.

Sid wrote back today: "I'll see what's up. Last week I tuned in and 
found someone in the studio, muting your show, playing hiphop. I don't 
believe that person would do that again, but ???"

So, see? Sometimes it's just that simple. This is good. It's not an 
intractable technical problem; it's just a matter of everybody getting 
the memo, though clearly someone already got the memo and either didn't 
read it or didn't care. People are funny. Sid and Ed will deal with it.

Anyway, also at http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find literally 
thousands of links to not necessarily radio-useful but certainly 
worthwhile material, such as:

Trains.
http://tinyurl.com/FreudianTransportation

Melons.
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/risque_produce_labels

Coney Island.
http://tinyurl.com/ShimmeryConeyIsland

And the Council of Elrond.
http://existentialcomics.com/comic/175


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Marco McClean
memo at mcn.org
http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com