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Haha, yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Just give your operatives Strunk&White and be done with it.

• zimpenfish 9y ago
  Although I'd check out what actual grammarians and linguists think of S&W before doing that (hint: they're not fans)
  • AnimalMuppet 9y ago
    Well, I'd check out how well grammarians and linguists write before I worry about their opinion of S&W...
  • samirillian 9y ago
    Huh, what do they have against it? I could see a linguist considering it too prescriptive, but in this case the whole point is prescribing a particular register of the language for effective communication. But what about the grammarians?
    • zimpenfish 9y ago
      Things like "Don't use the passive voice" whilst using the passive voice in the same paragraph and other egregious grammatical errors sprinkled wildly through the text. Basically the same kind of dumb and wrong prescriptivism the linguists and dictionaryists hate about it.