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
On Writing
On Writing
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"Falsehood flies, the Truth comes limping after it." - Jonathan Swift, ca. 1710
"Falsehood flies, the Truth comes limping after it." - Jonathan Swift, ca. 1710
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Re: On Writing
thanx for posting that
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