RE: what to look for in a Tech Editor

["Mark Baker" <mbaker -at- ca -dot- stilo -dot- com>]

> I do think that analyzing and generating grammatical sentences
> using formal rules probably needs to be introduced in early
> adolescence, but I'm willing to be persuaded that people who
> first encounter the subject in college or later can pick it up.

Formal rules for generating grammatical sentences are like formal rules for
predicting the movements of the stock market:

1. Everybody has a set.
2. Each set is different.
3. Each person belives fanatically in his own set.
4. None of them work.


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