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Dubbed the Nook, The Wall Street Journal has confirmed the Barnes & Noble e-book reader. I didn't know that The Wall Street Journal had been dubbed the Nook.

by byoung2 17y ago

Dubbed the Nook, The Wall Street Journal has confirmed the Barnes & Noble e-book reader. I didn't know that The Wall Street Journal had been dubbed the Nook. Sorry to be that annoying English major, but I had to point out the terrible grammar in the above sentence. I mean the article is about an e-reader!

jpeterson 17y ago
And being that annoying CS major and obsessed linguaphile, I have to point out that it's a problem with style, not grammar. The original sentence is grammatically correct, if a bit awkward.
- byoung2 17y ago
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar I used grammar as an umbrella term (the most common use). Style is one subset of semantics, which is a subset of grammar.
  - ironsam 17y ago
    Thanks for the didactic tangent.