[Leica] Good Writing is Harder Than Good Photography

[jls at runbox.com (Jeffery Smith)]

Elements of Style by Strunk and White was my New Testament. I read it
one night in 1968 and it changed my ability to write seemingly
overnight. I say seemingly; my mother had a habit of getting into my
belongings and saving term papers and the like. I looked at some of the
stuff I wrote from 1968-1972 and was utterly humiliated. But that was
before spell-checkers and grammar checkers cleaned up our messes.

Back then, we had writing across the curriculum. Today, we barely have
writing in composition classes.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com




-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Timothy
Atherton
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 7:51 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


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