@Joe Nation,
Joe: Who brought up the Elements of Style? Not me. I bought a copy in 1965 because I was required to do so in order to attend a class on 'Writing Headlines' or something like that. It was opened at least once that semester, but I can't remember why.
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Apparently, from your offerings on language you treated all your grammar books in a similar fashion. But that's just as well because all those books and the resulting milieu have left you more than incompetent in the grammar of the English language.
On the odd occasion, when you rely on your native instincts, you offer some decent advice. Such was not the case here.
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Joe: Here's an old saw and one I just made up.
"Can God make a stone so large He can't lift it?" No.
Can a writer write something so obtuse, he can't understand it?
Joe(Happens all the time.)Nation
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No, that wasn't cool, Joe. Language requires more thought than you want to give. When you talk out of your ass, it's **** that comes out.
So toddle off to your social engagement, little butterfly.
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Joe: Remind me what the thread by Joefromchicago was, please. I haven't any clear memory of it, though it must have been important to you.
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Only important in that it is illustrative of what you do - make grand pronouncements on language when you're most times peddling bullshit. You went thru the whole thread in a grand fog; you had not the slightest idea what you were talking about and when that was pointed up to you, Mr Language took a powder.