Re: Grammar Bigotry

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From: Kevin Parker
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1992 18:42

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And I'll agree with Micheal and Jim, too!  I've just been reading an old
(May, 1991) article by Joseph Williams in CCC, _The Phenomenology of
Error_.  It's relevance to this discussion: as Williams says, "if we
could read those student essays unreflexively, if we could make the ordinary
kind of contract with those texts that we make with other kinds of texts,
then we could find fewer errors."  He bases this argument on an analysis
of E.B.White, Huxley, Barzun, and Fowler.  He looked at certain usage rules
set forth in manuals written by these guys and then showed how, sometimes
in the very next paragraph--or in the case of Huxley, in the same paragraph--
the rules were violated.  His point: error should be treated as a union of
item and a response to that item.

Anyway, who are we to talk?  Proper grammar is nigh impossible in this
virtual world of Email!

P. Kevin Parker C554191@umcvmb

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