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Subject:Standards-sort of From:"Robert E. Allen" <re_allen -at- PNL -dot- GOV> Date:Thu, 30 Jun 1994 19:46:44 GMT
I'll agree that we need some rules for our writing so the reader
has a reasonable chance of understanding what the writer had
in mind. But this is not a religious belief with me, so I accept
deviations. On the bulletin board above my monitor is a quote
from James Kilpatrick:
Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence
than on the dictates of a rule book.
