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Strunk and White’s Macho Grammar Club
- yarrel 11y agoDo read the comments.
- dubya 11y agoI tried, but that smiling Republican refuses to budge and is creeping me out.
- oska 11y agoGeoffrey K. Pullum: 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice [1] [1] http://chronicle.com/article/50-Years-of-Stupid-Grammar/25497 http://chronicle.com/article/50-Years-of-Stupid-Grammar/2549...
- brlewis 11y agoEven the truly silly advice, like "Do not inject opinion," doesn't really do harm. (No force on earth can prevent undergraduates from injecting opinion. And anyway, sometimes that is just what we want from them.) Geoffrey's writing would be stronger omitting "truly", "really" and "anyway". It isn't just novice writers who need reminders to omit needless words.
- ademarre 11y agoAnd the HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1002723 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1002723
- ibejoeb 11y agoOT, but what are we calling this recently trendy pattern of putting multiple distinct articles on one page? I just saw it on Bloomberg, and now TDB. I keep scrolling and thinking to myself, "What a long article!" It's like the worst form of infinite scroll.