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From: levy@princeton.UUCP
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Subject: Re: grammar books - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 30-Aug-83 23:42:03 EDT
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Well, the problem with Strunk and White is that all it gives you is
hints (granted, some of them are very appropriate).  Whatever else it
contains is mere common sense (e.g. don't write a 20-word sentence if
you can say the same thing in seven words).  Besides some of the advice
is old-fashioned and unrealistic, even in the most recent edition; for
example, they claim the verb "claim" should not be used in the sense I
just used it.

		--Silvio Levy (still trying to learn English...)