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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab
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To: The Philosopher who wrote (3231)7/24/1999 9:36:00 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (2) of 4711
 
Three questions and a comment:

As a sophisticated user of the language, do you strive to make your writing correct or do you strive to make it beautiful?

Do you think the two are the same?

Is the use of "dialogue" or "expertise" as verbs aesthetically pleasing, to your ear?

I have flexible mental lists of the people on SI who I feel write well. These are the people whose writing I like to read, regardless of what they are writing about, whose writing is as pleasing to the ear as good music. I also have a flexible mental list of those who consider themselves sophisticated users of the language. The lists are not the same.
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