Re: Edited American English

["Guy K. Haas" <guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com>]

Barbara Donohue wrote:
> My understanding is that "Edited American English" is just a new name 
> for "Standard Written English."  The idea among educators, apparently, 
> was that anything that wasn't "Standard Written English" might be 
> construed as "substandard," even though it might be perfectly 
> understandable and vivid, to the detriment of the students involved.
> 
> Someone else may have the official story.
> 
> Barbara 


See, for example, http://preview.tinyurl.com/2dl2ju
for a section of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Grammar and Style" 
article on Edited American English.

For those who don't know of it -- just as we have the series of "XXX for 
Dummies", there's a similar series called "The Complete Idiot's Guide to 
XXXX".

--Guy K. Haas
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