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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab
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To: Edwarda who wrote (2285)3/28/1999 2:24:00 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 4711
 
puzzling about the grammar of a construction can cause one to realize that the grammar is difficult because the thought itself is
fuzzy and needs clarification.

Thoughts expressed with a modicum of grammatical correctness do generally come out more clearly than those that are sloppily expressed. This is not only a function of the grammar: a writer who takes the effort to follow grammatical rules is almost forced to evaluate and improve the thought at the same time.

Have you ever read the E.E. Cummings novel The Enormous Room? A good one to trot out when people cite noted writers as precedents for grammatical games. He knew the rules long before he decided - for specific reasons - to break them. Too much sloppiness is passed off as experimentation.
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