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Article #1265Publishers of the wierd response to flames
From: bgardner
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 14:28
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 14:28
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Thanks for your responses... :) I never claimed to be a good speler or gramar doer :) The mis-spellings were a result of the combined facts that the comp. center was closing, and that I basically can not spell. Learning Disabinlity and all... at home I have a spell check and everyone's happy. As for gramar,it sickens me. Writers, good writers, get away with very poor gramar. In order to have propper gramar you have to be half insane, because the rules on gramar change twice a year. One month you have to put coma's in between and and something no matter what, then... six months later you only have to do it if it's the final word in a string... then you only don't have to do it in those instances. Gramar is meant to help the reader no when to put pauses... if a writer can do that without a coma then that, to me, is a wonderful thing. The period, and the coma can be used as as much of a crutch as ALL CAPS or italics; and I have never come across a good use for those two things in anything... short of plays. Paragraphs... now that's a flame I agree with, and I apologize for my former posting's lack of paragraphs... I tend to write like I would speak... problem is that I don't speak in a formal tone... and the only way I could think of to write that post was in... a formal tone... I guess I could've come up with a character that did speak in a essay form, and pretend he was posting to this group... but I like to be myself. So... thank you for your replys, flames and otherwise and I hope to hear more of them :) Take care guys... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (in a cemetary) -This shall be our deaths, I swear it. "You should not swear death on those to close to it. -I swore on nothing. "You swore on your father. -Oh, is that where I'm standing. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------0 Brian
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Newsgroups: misc.writing Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!nic.umass.edu!hamp.hampshire.edu!bgardner From: bgardner@hamp.hampshire.edu Subject: Publishers of the wierd response to flames Message-ID: <1992Dec18.102843.1@hamp.hampshire.edu> Lines: 31 Sender: usenet@nic.umass.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Hampshire College Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 14:28:43 GMT