Quote from: wc4482 on December 01, 2013, 03:05:29 PM

Quote from: Kluge on November 30, 2013, 06:50:33 AM

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I have a question on the conjunctions. I'm about 50 min into 1:17 of episode 6, and I'm having a little bit of trouble with the way Jeffrey Tucker speaks. Specifically, he uses a lot of sentence fragments that are strung together with conjunctions or filler words like *and* or *you know*. I try to cut them out when I can but sometimes the 'You Knows' seem to capture Jeffrey's speaking style, and sometimes they seem as just filler.

Which is better:
Time = 47:15 https://soundcloud.com/mindtomatter/e06-cyprus-serendipity-lets
#1 or

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But the same kind of thing, you know, it also happened in education.

#2

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But the same kind of thing also happened in education.

I also find myself using a lot of commas. JT tends to put short pauses between thoughts and I am not sure whether to use commas or periods. I'm wondering if it is just better to have a lot of short sentences or a long sentence with commas for the pauses.

I'd keep the "you know" in that case, but change some other things around. ", but the same kind of thing, you know - it also happened in education, it's happened in healthcare, it's happened in [whatever the other example was]." Semicolons, colons, hyphens, and double hyphen-minuses are all acceptable to me, though semicolons and colons are preferable. Kieran does a great job with handling sentence structure to preserve thought flow (way better than I) - so if you're looking for some good examples, check out his transcripts.

Quote from: wc4482 on December 01, 2013, 03:05:29 PM

I also find myself using a lot of commas. JT tends to put short pauses between thoughts and I am not sure whether to use commas or periods. I'm wondering if it is just better to have a lot of short sentences or a long sentence with commas for the pauses.

i.e. Commas:
Time = 44:20 https://soundcloud.com/mindtomatter/e06-cyprus-serendipity-lets

Code:

You know I dont think it's a coincidence at all that we saw the rise of Bitcoin at the time that weve seen it - right after the currency crisis of 2008.
That really put everybody on notice, something is not working about the system. You know its exactly that period the regulators, the Fed and the Treasury
and everything, they sent the entire system into a gigantic upheaval thats fundamentally changed its workability. Banks today dont work anything like what
they worked like ten years ago. Its a completely different operation. They make money in a different way, their reserves are handled in a completely different
way, the Federal Reserve is totally dedicated to [hampering] down interested to zero, to negative. Money and the financial system just isn't working the way
it used to work, so Satoshis invention, you know with Bitcoin, comes along really at exactly the right time. Its kind of the perfect storm in many ways.

or periods:

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You know I dont think its a coincidence at all that we saw the rise of Bitcoin at the time that weve seen it - right after the currency crisis of 2008.
That really put everybody on notice. Something is not working about the system. You know its exactly that period the regulators - the Fed and the Treasury
and everything - they sent the entire system into a gigantic upheaval thats fundamentally changed its workability. Banks today dont work anything like what
they worked like ten years ago. Its a completely different operation. They make money in a different way. Their reserves are handled in a completely different
way. The Federal Reserve is totally dedicated to [hampering] down interested to zero. To negative. Money and the financial system just isn't working the way
it used to work. Satoshis invention - you know with Bitcoin - comes along really at exactly the right time. Its kind of the perfect storm in many ways.

That probably wasn't the best example, but hopefully you can see what I'm talking about.

Note: I absolutely love his analysis of economics and bitcoin. I'm really glad I was able to sit down and write this transcript because he brings up so many good points of view that I didn't pick up on when I was listening to the podcast.

I'd change to (Kieran could probably further correct this):

I dont think it's a coincidence at all that we saw the rise of Bitcoin at the time that weve seen it: right after the currency crisis of 2008. That really put everybody on notice: something is not working about the system. Its exactly that period the regulators, the Fed, and the Treasury, and everything - they sent the entire system into a gigantic upheaval thats fundamentally changed its workability. Banks today dont work anything like what they worked like ten years ago; its a completely different operation. They make money in a different way, their reserves are handled in a completely different way. The Federal Reserve is totally dedicated to [hampering] down interest [rates] to zero, to negative. Money and the financial system just isn't working the way it used to work, so Satoshis invention, Bitcoin, comes along, really at exactly the right time. Its kind of the perfect storm in many ways.