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On Writing

Post by sasha » July 9th, 2020, 11:53 am

an excellent lecture on linguistics and the writer's craft - sets fire to some of the hoary old "rules", bureaucratese, and the extreme tenets of prescriptivism & descriptivism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV5J6BfToSw&t=16s
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Re: On Writing

Post by stilltrucking » July 11th, 2020, 1:05 pm

thanx for posting that 8)
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Re: On Writing

Post by sasha » July 11th, 2020, 4:41 pm

 
 
 
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