>It's
all part of syntax and style, not grammar as you say. How many
>people on this list ever turned in a paper where the teacher/professor
>insisted on strict adherence to "Strunk and White"?
Me Me Me... but ironically it was a
"Creative Writing" class... so I
scratched my head, flipped him the bird, and walked out to see the
registrar's office about being moved to a different professor.
Strunk and White ???
Could somebody explain this to a simple foreingenr ?
;)
Two sadists who through elemental methods of mind control and an intricate
network of conspirators throughout the American educational system sought
to inflict their standards of punctuation, writing style and essay form on
millions of innocent and otherwise ignorant students.
Okay, only the last half is the truth, but I suffered under it too :-)
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