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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: jbe who wrote (45877)7/18/1999 1:13:00 PM
From: Ilaine   of 108807
 
I would say that the greatest writer of all time, IMHO, was Jane Austen, but there are so many great ones. But I understand Coug's point, that there are good writers who "push the envelope" a little, e.g., write extremely long, run-on sentences, like Faulkner and Joyce, or write incomplete sentences, no names come to mind, but it's a common usage.

I can't think of a great writer who made egregious errors like misspelling words, or violating the rules of subject-verb agreement.
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