tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post7684593263001736223..comments2023-08-29T02:42:23.063-05:00Comments on ¡Bemsha SWING!: Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post-82080948003837054002007-02-22T03:47:00.000-06:002007-02-22T03:47:00.000-06:00I just went over and read some of the posts. I li...I just went over and read some of the posts. I like the posts. They seem pretty right on to me. If you take the advise to excess, it does turn absurd. We do need adjectives.... sometimes a needless word makes something sound much better. So I will give them that. Not that they need giving. What the book does well though is give a quick hit. It lets me, when I have a question, go in there and quickly find an acceptable answer. If all freshman comp students followed the S&W rules (when in doubt), those essays would be much easier to read. I am not saying the book is the beginning and the end, only that it has helped me before. I am not sure where it has hurt me. <BR/><BR/>What would it take to change my mind? I think, if it could be shown that this book is dangerous to a comp I student, I'd change my mind. Right now though, if we are putting odds on a readability match, I'd take the comp I student with the book over the comp I student without the book.jwghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15983966674045451970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post-62891082477061536612007-02-21T23:13:00.000-06:002007-02-21T23:13:00.000-06:00Because? Either you haven't read the Language Log...Because? <BR/><BR/>Either you haven't read the Language Log posts about Strunk and White, or<BR/><BR/>You have read them and are still sticking behind it, because you haven't been convinced. <BR/><BR/>Then,<BR/><BR/>What would it take to convince you?Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post-3491038614495086322007-02-21T22:51:00.000-06:002007-02-21T22:51:00.000-06:00I will continue to stand by my Elements of Style.I will continue to stand by my Elements of Style.jwghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15983966674045451970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post-24403981360376604512007-02-21T13:00:00.000-06:002007-02-21T13:00:00.000-06:00absolutely and totally agreed. i think everyone, e...absolutely and totally agreed. i think everyone, especially any language major, should have formal linguistics training. prescriptive grammar (as opposed to descriptive) has very limited purpose, because language changes. someday soon english will no longer have a subjunctive and that's not *wrong*, it's just *different*lindsayihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15149784241027277861noreply@blogger.com