From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,b3a2e095fecd381e X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!textspool1.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!news-out.readnews.com!postnews7.readnews.com!not-for-mail Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 23:56:59 -0500 From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110221 Thunderbird/3.1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: About style References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <4d7465a2$0$9788$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 47e077bb.usenet-news.net X-Trace: DXC=m22IW\jfgSRP;NEYeToL;]^oXGM_6\KVPmX0AG3X_jU_:7=nJ9D667SdJFcAK6d]9QQMd4h;SL\EXT:?6JjOJf?_P\2ofUFP\0Q X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenet-news.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17926 Date: 2011-03-06T23:56:59-05:00 List-Id: 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. (If you think people on c.l.a. get cranky sometimes, you should see the above for a dose of real crankiness :-)