Whose List Is It, Anyway?

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First Kathy wrote:

>Before we start discussing any more grammar rules, please remember that
>there are way too many rules and exceptions to rules, and exceptions to
>exceptions, in our wonderful language (try teaching a non-reading adult
>to read, and you'll quickly learn this!) to discuss every nuance here.
>And this probably isn't even an appropriate forum for such a topic - is
>there a grammar listserv somewhere??!!
>
Then Mikki replied:

>We are writers. This is our list. Grammar is part of writing. Why *not*
>discuss grammar here?

What's interesting about this is, over on the Copyediting list the same
thing just came up, in reverse!

I subscribe to both because they overlap as well as discuss independent
elements of the entire craft of writing. Writing - editing - grammar -
spelling - formatting are so closely related that it's unrealistic to
consider one without the other.

For any of you techwhirlers interested in fine-point discussions of grammar
(etc.), check out Copyediting.

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Carolyn Haley
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