7 Jan
2002
7 Jan
'02
12:32 a.m.
Strunk and White's book, Elements of Style, is a very good, very concise
manual for writing, covering most of the nasty bits we've been
discussing, and myriad others. There is also an Elements of Programming
Style which follows its spirit for programming use.
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Hans Franke wrote:
M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
Shady Lea, Rhode Island
"Casta est quam nemo rogavit."
- Ovid
>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 ?
;)
H.
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