Happy 50th, Elements of Style. You are the best book, even if your grammar advice is wonky sometimes.
Does everything in my soul want to throw an Elements of Style party using this initials idea? Clearly. Will I be heading to Cornell's Olin library this month, where they're showing E.B. White's typewriter? It is quite likely indeed.
NPR story here. Be clear, sweets. Omit needless words.
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I listened to that story on the way to work this morning. My car-pool buddy and I were laughing out loud. I think I still have my dusty-ol' copy of the Elements of Style somewhere. Just in case I need to know the difference in Affect and Effect. Or how the use of 'clever' differens between a human and a horse. You never know...
i thought of you when i heard the story today.
Ha, shoot me now.
I would like to go to this party.
I hope you are enjoying a bit of a break. Spring is as good a time to stop and smell the fresh green of growing things and recharge a bit.
xo
I've been wanting to tell you for awhile, you have to read E.B. White's essay "Here is New York" if you haven't already.
It's essential for someone who just moved to New York. He wrote in the 1940s and yet it is still so true today. You'll love it!
i don't want to be contrary, but this article is interesting: http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i32/32b01501.htm
I read that article last week sometime and cracked up, margaretocracy. My <3 for Strunk and White is less about grammar than about charm; I'm afraid I had to forgo much of its advice as soon as I became an editor. :) Thanks for the note!
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