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- From: bgardner@hamp.hampshire.edu
- Subject: Publishers of the wierd response to flames
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.102843.1@hamp.hampshire.edu>
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- Sender: usenet@nic.umass.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Hampshire College
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 14:28:43 GMT
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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...
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- (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.
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- Brian
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