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- From: bjones@denitqm.uswest.com (Brent Jones)
- Subject: Re: Publishers of the wierd response to flames
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- References: <1992Dec18.102843.1@hamp.hampshire.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 20:08:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.102843.1@hamp.hampshire.edu>,
- bgardner@hamp.hampshire.edu wrote:
- >
- [snip
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > Brian
-
- Not sure you have a good grasp of what grammar entails, but hey.
-
- As far as grammar and writers go, of course good writers can use bad
- grammar, but they generally do it with a full understanding of what's
- involved and to achieve a certain effect. Bad grammar does not a good
- writer make, and it *will* hurt your chances of having your work
- published as a first-timer in the hard, cold, elitist world of
- publishing. But good luck, and keep up your spirit!
-
- --
- Brent Jones, Lead Tech. Editor, U S WEST IT, bjones@denitqm.uswest.com
- "of beautiful weeds that cannot hide from the farmer and helplessly have
- to watch the shadow of his simian stoop leave mangled flowers in its wake,
- as the monstrous darkness approaches."--V. Nabokov _Signs and Symbols_
-