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To: jbe who wrote (1226)	5/5/1998 1:28:00 PM
From: Rick Slemmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

jb: I got so hot and bothered about "your", etc., that I had to have a forum to vent in! That reminds me; one of the rules that was drilled into me as an elementary school student was "Never end a sentence with a preposition." Is it acceptable to do so these days, or is it something, to paraphrase Winston Churchill, "up with which we refuse to put?" RS

To: jbe who wrote (1226)	5/5/1998 3:12:00 PM
From: Achilles	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

>> I have to watch myself constantly, to avoid discounting what people say simply because they say it badly. There are a lot of very knowledgeable people on SI -- but they ain't all writers, that's for sure.<< A poorly written thought is often a poorly conceived one. Most of the people whose opinions I find enlightening write competently, whether on SI and elsewhere. In many cases, poor writing is a sign of poor thinking, and the problems are not merely mechanical. The ungrammatical may have some piece of knowledge that they can (barely) communicate; they rarely think well, however, because language is the only vehicle by which humans can think. (Oh dear, am I becoming a grammar-fascist?)