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![]() It has precisely the same meaning and is as I say simply another form of “ta-ta”. It’s a much more northern phrase, particularly used in Lancashire and parts of Yorkshire. It was popularized even further during the Second World War thanks, as I mentioned, to radio abbreviations of the term used commonly in plays and dramas.įollowing on from that, “tarra” is a regional corruption of “ta-ta”. It caught on very quickly and eventually came to be an all-round term for goodbye, not just used in nursery settings. Our first recorded use of the term is cited by the OED in 1823, where it was used as a nursery expression for goodbye. “Tata” may be rather regional and archaic today, but nonetheless it is still used and understood.Ī very common use of this term is in the phrase “ta-ta for now!” which was often abbreviated to “TTFN”, especially in things like greetings cards and even on the radio.Īgain, this one can be used in just about any situation, no matter how formal or informal, though it admittedly could come off as overly friendly with the wrong person. The term became more widely known and thus more widely used to say goodbye. It was no doubt popularized by the advent of the Cheerios cereal, which debuted in 1941. In 1896 it is first recorded as just “cheero”, and then by 1918 at least it has become “cheerio”. ![]() The origin of this term is found in the late 19 th Century, where it was essentially an alteration of “cheer”.Ĭheer itself was a salutation for many situations, probably originating from “cheers” as used for a toast. You could use this for a shopkeeper, a good friend, an acquaintance, just about anyone! It’s universally understood and though it can be more regional than some terms, any British person is likely to know what you mean by cheerio. “I’ve got to go now, cheerio!” for example. By the by, it appears that Dawn’s Lover will not be appearing in this year’s festival, which is fine, although it would be nice to see the play remounted now that it’s been revised (and wouldn’t be edited brutally for time constraints).Perhaps the most widely used slang term meaning goodbye, “cheerio” is something you could say for goodbye in just about any situation. My contention is that there are two types of people in the world–those who have never read Finnegan’s Wake, and liars. They were nice enough to include excerpted text from Joyce’s incoherent opus in the program itself. This is a sketch I wrote in which I cannibalized a dialogue from another play of mine, about ways to survive cocktail conversation on James Joyce in general and Finnegan’s Wake in particular. To be perfectly frank, I wasn’t sure it was ready to be performed at all, but hey, two Brits, a Yank, and a Scouser can’t all be wrong, I s’pose. I didn’t actually send him this script, he pulled it off of the LJ entry. It was a hell of a problem for the last director, and she had a bit more support for the endeavor. This is the same play that was performed at last year’s Cut to the Chase, and I wonder how they pulled off the trick of the headless telemarketer. ![]() Yeah, I don’t get how the math of the show’s title works either. These guys charged a pound or two just to cover their expenses and did it in a studio, but I’ll be buggered if I’m going to call this anything less than a world premiere. My understanding is that you can’t call something a “premiere” unless it’s gone up on a professional stage. Which is more than can be said for most dossiers coming out of Britain these days. I can feel my head swelling, so I’m going to go soak it for awhile. Literary References for Social Situations, Lesson One In Which It Is Determined the Exact Number of Literature Students Required to Change a Lightbulb He also tossed in three untitled sketches which his group (the aptly-titled “Two Brits, a Yank and a Scouser”) wrote, and had I known, I wuld have requested copies of these just to find out what else they’d done. As it turns out, Vince actually world-premiered not only this play, but four sketches that I’d never really expected to be performed in front of audiences. 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I read it when I was like 11 or 12, and I was like, Oh, Los Angeles is magic I think I want to live there. “My first LA novel – and still, in many ways, the most influential – is “Weetzie Bat” by Francesca Lia Block. We discuss many books, from Helen Hunt Jackson’s “Ramona” to the works of Eve Babitz, so I ask Orphan to name a favorite. And more, much more across the larger Southern California area. Butler, John Fante, Wanda Coleman, Charles Bukowski and Joan Didion explorations of bookstores, author gravesites and neighborhoods. Rodriguez, Naomi Hirahara and Aimee Bender appreciations of Octavia E. The book includes, among others, interviews with writers Michael Connelly, Luis J. It’s all so much bigger than some people who haven’t spent time stuck in traffic here necessarily imagine, but also the ethnic diversity and wanting to really capture that there is a long history of different voices present in Los Angeles.” “Geographically, we’re huge – what life looks like in the San Gabriel Valley versus San Pedro versus Malibu. “This book was looking at the authors and trying to communicate some of the vast diversity of Los Angeles, she says. Why? Because people here “choose to live someplace with a lot of sunshine and good weather they just get taken a little less seriously,” she says. Orphan says “Read Me, Los Angeles” is a way to address the fact that the literary tradition of Southern California – aside from maybe Raymond Chandler – doesn’t get the kind of respect that those of New York, San Francisco, Chicago and Boston do. There was a certain amount of kismet to how it came together, and she makes sure to call attention to the work of the editors, artists and designers who made the book look as good as it does. A well-designed and colorful look at the books and writers of Los Angeles and Southern California, “Read Me, Los Angeles” is full of interviews, recommendations, photos, anecdotes, lists, and more. Orphan’s work is now available for all and a great way to embrace Southern California’s literary highlights. I believe it was literally the next day I called Chevalier’s Bookstore about a different story and I got Orphan, the store’s manager, on the line, completely unaware she was the author I’d meant to be looking up. (Speaking of surreal: I first encountered Orphan’s book as I briefly passed a store display, making a mental note to seek it out in the future. “It made the entire experience far more surreal than I think it would have been had this not all happened.” “And so I went from like, the most exciting thing is happening I have a book out in the world and we’re going to do all these events around LA” to staying home and baking bread while waiting for the vaccine, she says. On the positive side, she thinks the strange events led to her inclusion in a New York Times story about debuts derailed by the pandemic. “By Friday of that week, the city of LA had basically shut down. My book came out on March 10, 2020, and I think I had my book launch event on March 11, at Skylight Books,” says Orphan. ![]() ![]() “Sometimes I think about it, and it just seems like something that didn’t even happen. 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"We couldn't keep up the same pace as before the iPad with the same number of people, so last year we crossed the 50 employee mark," he told Ars. Indie business is stronger than everĬase noted that although he said the company is shifting its focus back to the Mac, it's really doing iPad and Mac concurrently. "We think a lot of businesses will want to host their own data on their own corporate network instead of relying on someone else's," Case said. There's text zooming support ("by far our most popular request over the last 8 years," said Case), a new column visibility UI, style system matching, and an updated look and feel.Īnd OmniPresence, when it ships later this quarter, will manage conflicts adding documents, renaming documents, and so on. The company is also on the verge of launching OmniOutliner 4-after having rebuilt the outlining engine around Core Animation in OS X, the company feels there is a lot of potential for additional features. OmniFocus 2 was only part of what Omni decided to unveil in front of hundreds of onlookers at Macworld on Thursday night. When dealing with tasks in review mode, OmniFocus will also show calendar events from your iCal app if you want to see them all together. "One of the things that happens in task management tools is that you end up collecting a lot of projects and tasks, and it's easy to collect so much information that you're overloaded," Case pointed out. Review mode allows you to set a time for when you want to engage in specific tasks again-in a week, or a month, or twice a year, etc.-so you don't get overwhelmed with the tasks at hand. It also added a forecast mode as well as review modes (again borrowed from the iPad app). So what did Omni decide to do? For one, it unified all navigation within the app into a single sidebar. "Based on customer feedback, OmniFocus on the iPad is by far the most usable of all the apps," Case said. But when Omni paused its Mac software development in an effort to go all-in on the iPad, it learned many lessons about user interface. "We didn't really know our goals, we just wanted to help people get things done," Case said. When Omni built the first version of OmniFocus, Case pointed out, the company didn't really know where it was going. "With OmniFocus 2, you'll no longer need a degree in OmniFocus to use OmniFocus." "OmniFocus had a lot of power users, but it was not very approachable and awkward to navigate," Case told Ars during the conference. But the software is still in progress-Case says the company plans to take feedback from users in order to refine the UI before its final release, which he hopes to happen in the first half of this year.Ĭase is the first to admit that OmniFocus 1 for Mac, while popular, was not the most user-friendly of software packages. The highly anticipated update to OmniFocus sports a new look, borrowing design elements and features from OmniFocus for the iPad. Now, in 2013, CEO Ken Case has declared it's time to get back to the Mac, unveiling the company's plans to release OmniFocus 2 for the Mac on Thursday at Macworld|iWorld. SAN FRANCISCO, CA-Three years ago, the Omni Group decided to go " iPad or bust," delaying its Mac software releases in order to prioritize the iPad as a new platform for the company's well-loved software. Your review will help other people find OmniPlan and make them more productive too.OmniFocus is getting a new look with OmniFocus 2. If you have any feedback or questions, we’d love to hear from you! The Omni Group offers free tech support you can email call 1–800–315–6664 or 1–206–523–4152, or tweet OmniPlan empowers you, we would appreciate an App Store review. 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