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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wigglesworth who wrote (2543)5/22/1999 12:03:00 PM
From: jbe  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 4711
 
Redundancy may not be a crime, but stylists consider it a cardinal sin. Strunk, for example, placed the injunction "omit needless words" sixth in his short list of "elementary principles of composition."

And -- I ask out of curiosity -- why do you make what must be deliberate writing errors? An example:

Its wierd to be able to read mind while blind to the obvious.

Do you make them because you think nobody will notice them? (It is more likely that other people do notice them, but are too polite to point them out.)

Do you make them because you want to be able to say that you deliberately laid a trap for other people, if they do point the errors out? (It is more likely that others will assume you are only trying to wiggle out of it.)

jbe




To: Wigglesworth who wrote (2543)5/22/1999 12:03:00 PM
From: E  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 4711
 
<<<The moral of the story is Some people can see a few words back, others can see whole sentences... >>>

Hmmmmm. So it's personal, I see. Which makes it not fun.


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