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Worth noting that regardless of any racial or otherwise overtones to Strunk and White, professional linguists and grammarians consider it to be garbage advice a
by zimpenfish 6y ago
Worth noting that regardless of any racial or otherwise overtones to Strunk and White, professional linguists and grammarians consider it to be garbage advice and this commit ends up being a sensible route.
e.g. This from Geoffrey K. Pullum, who has railed upon this particular dead horse many times, https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=15509 https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=15509
> Virtually nothing useful about English grammar can be learned from Strunk. Setting aside a few standard conventions of punctuation, which barely deserve to be called part of the grammar, the grammatical claims Strunk makes are foolish assertions
- bryanrasmussen 6y agoI don't think the book is generally supposed to be teaching grammar, it is, as I understand it, trying to teach 'style'. Of course the style it teaches is perhaps somewhat antiquated.