Talk:Louis Menand

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Have commenced tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 23:31, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Punctuation

Louis Menard wrote in the New Yorker in 2004 that 'lecturing Americans on semicolons is a little like an American lecturing the French on sauces'. Surely Louis Menard doesn't really believe that Americans punctuate well? Americans are certainly prissy about applying the punctuations rules they have been fed in high school and college. Americans are insecure about language. Therefore they want simple rules in order not to be 'wrong'. And there are always people who are happy assuage the insecurity and make money out of 'simple rules for right punctuation'. All that leads to priggishness in punctuation, but it does not add up to punctuating well. On the page American punctuation is plain ugly. In other words, please persuade fellow Americans to use "double quotes" less frequently and place them more elegantly. 212.183.33.214 (talk) 12:14, 1 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Pronunciation of "Louis Menand"

In the "Big Think" video that's given as the source for the pronunciation of Louis Menand's name, he clearly introduces himself as "Luke Menand". Luke is his nickname, but he doesn't say "Louis", so we can only know from various videos online in which he's introduced by other speakers how "Louis" should be pronounced. The majority appear to indicate that ['luːi] is how it's said, so that's probably fine. As for "Menand", he himself says [mə'nænd] and not [mə'nɑːnd]. 67.83.99.134 (talk) 01:19, 29 January 2021 (UTC)corpho[reply]