From: Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>
Subject: Re: About style
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 23:56:59 -0500
Date: 2011-03-06T23:56:59-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4d7465a2$0$9788$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.vruceftsule2fv@douda-yannick>
On 3/4/2011 5:50 PM, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:
>> A great writer will slavishly conform to some rules of style,
>> and that in no way constrains his power to express himself creatively.
>> See for example William Strunk's The Elements of Style
>> [http://www.crockford.com/wrrrld/style.html].
If you ever check out Language Log (a linguistics blog among whose
contributors are Ben Zimmer, who took over the recently canceled
On Language column in the New York Times Magazine) you will discover
that they generally despise The Elements of Style.
<http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2922>
(If you think people on c.l.a. get cranky sometimes, you should see
the above for a dose of real crankiness :-)
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-04 22:50 About style Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-04 23:41 ` Bill Findlay
2011-03-05 0:14 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-03-05 1:40 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-05 9:53 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-03-07 4:56 ` Hyman Rosen [this message]
2011-03-07 5:13 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
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