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Mark Dery: I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts

• #227: Mike Godwin (mnemonic) Tue 22 May 12 22:08 May 23, 2012
  Oh, well, I certainly agree with Pullum and you that some of the Elements are wrong if we take them to be "rules" or even as descriptions of what works best. It seems strange to call E.B. White a "bumbler" though. As, you know, the genesis of THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE is a White memoir of Strunk in The New Yorker (which I don't recall ha […]
• #226: (fom) Tue 22 May 12 21:30 May 23, 2012
  A main, if not the main, point he makes -- about something that had been bothering/puzzling me since I got my first and only and currently in my bookcase copy of S&W in 1959 -- is that so many of their rules (or whatever they are) are simply wrong. Yes, the word "linguistics" appears in the essay, I do realize that. And no, I don't think I […]
• #225: Mike Godwin (mnemonic) Tue 22 May 12 20:16 May 23, 2012
  fom writes:'There's nothing in the article suggesting that the author is criticizing it as a "linguistics text." 'I suppose it depends on what you mean by "nothing." I assume you know that by "text" I don't mean "textbook" or "source material." I just mean "text."From the Pullum […]
• #224: (fom) Tue 22 May 12 19:58 May 23, 2012
  >I'll try to squeeze in a sign-off post Thursday AM, or late Wed; my apologies for the many questions left unanswered.You can answer questions later -- the interview can go on as long as you and your questioners want. The official timespan is 2 weeks, but that's not an actual cutoff point. [Read entire topic] […]
• #223: M. Dery (mark-dery) Tue 22 May 12 18:36 May 23, 2012
  All: My apologies, but I have to prep for tomorrow's lecture-cum-launch party, mentioned above. Come Thursday, I'm wheels-up for a mini-book tour of Southern California. If you're in the L.A. or San Diego area, please consider dropping by one of the following events. If you do, please come up and tug on my sleeve afterward. I'll try to sq […]