Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/09

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: [Leica] "Even us natives don't write English good"
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sun May 9 17:23:27 2004

> I hope that there will be more than a couple. May I suggest "Eats, Shoots
> and Leaves" by Lynne Truss, subtitled "a zero tolerance approach to
> punctuation". The book is a most entertaining discourse on misplaced
> apostrophes (as in "its" vs. "it's") and other ways of mangling the English
> language.
> Oliver Bryk (English was not my first language)
> 
> 
I had an English teacher drill into our heads comma splices for a whole
semester and I can spot them a mile away. All the great writers do it. Last
night I was reading Dorothy Parker and she has one on every page. Otherwise
I'm a grammer flunker.


Mark Rabiner
Photography
Portland Oregon



New-improved
http://rabinergroup.com/




Replies: Reply from Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway) ([Leica] "Even us natives don't write English good")
In reply to: Message from oliverbryk at iqmail.net (Oliver) ([Leica] "Even us natives don't write English good")