Re: Usage "types of car"

["Wojcik, Richard H" <Rick -dot- Wojcik -at- PSS -dot- BOEING -dot- COM>]

Thanks, Chris, but I'm well aware of Strunk and White.  You can find an on-line link to it on my Linguistics and Language web page:  http://home1.gte.net/rwojcik/linguistics.html.  You can find advice in Strunk and White that is both very good and very bad.  But it is clearly a venerable and well-respected style guide.

I'm not saying that these issues are impossible to resolve, only that they are very complex.  Grammar and style guides attempt to address these issues, but they can only deal with them at a very superficial level.  Linguists have come to accept the truism of the great American linguist Edward Sapir:  "All grammars leak."  We are looking at a very leaky corner of the grammar here.

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> From:         Chris Kowalchuk[SMTP:chris -at- bdk -dot- net]
> Sent:         Friday, July 30, 1999 5:48 AM
> To:   Wojcik, Richard H
> Cc:   TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject:      Re: Usage "types of car"
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> Richard, and anyone else who thinks that these issues cannot be (have
> not been) resolved,
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> I respectfully submit that you might benefit from reading Strunk and
> White, The Elements of Style.
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> It is far more consise than I am, can be read from cover to cover in
> less than a day, and is one of the best resources for resolving those
> bizarre and ubiquitous problems that plague speakers of English, native
> and foreign alike.
>
> Chris Kowalchuk
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