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by folio 3y ago
As you noted, there are "other guides". As an antidote to Strunk & White, I have always liked the Fowler brothers' The King's English (1906): https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_King%27s_English
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by folio 4y ago
> If I close my eyes and put earplugs in when an ad is playing is that piracy? See: https://www.iflscience.com/eyetracking-moviepass-app-will-pa...
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by folio 4y ago
I hope you are right, but this is a for-profit company that has just received a new round of funding. From an Austin American-Statesman article[1], "Colossal Biosciences, which this week announced a new $150 million funding round, is l
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by folio 6y ago
About the turn of the twentieth century, American actor William Gillette was writing a stage play about Sherlock Holmes. Gillette wrote to Conan Doyle asking if he would object to Gillette having Holmes get married in the play. Doyle wrote
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by folio 6y ago
I'm a big fan of "fun to read" "trashy" novels. Raymond Chandler (author of the Philip Marlowe detective novels) once said that when he got stuck writing he would have a man come through a door with a gun in his han
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by folio 6y ago
A couple of years after this essay appeared Jedediah Purdy published something of a response in The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/thoreau-radical-se...
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by folio 7y ago
Please, Barnes' "reasoning" is not naiveté. Barnes and his colleagues understand exactly what they are doing. The Barnes article is evidence of nothing but contempt for its intended audience.