Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/06

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Subject: [Leica] Good Writing is Harder Than Good Photography
From: buzz.hausner at verizon.net (Buzz Hausner)
Date: Mon Jun 6 18:41:26 2005
 
...and yet, perfectly intelligent, college educated
people...photographers, even...cannot write a simple declarative
sentence.

        Buzz Hausner

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+buzz.hausner=verizon.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+buzz.hausner=verizon.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf
Of Timothy Atherton
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 8:51 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: RE: [Leica] Good Writing is Harder Than Good Photography


> Using or avoiding a split infinitive has nothing, I repeat NOTHING, to
do
> with good writing.

Gower has long since been my guide to English Usage and he declared the
nonsensical and pedantic rules on the split infinitive to be bunkum half
a
century ago at least.

tim
In reply to: Message from tim at KairosPhoto.com (Timothy Atherton) ([Leica] Good Writing is Harder Than Good Photography)