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Date: | Wed, 5 Apr 2006 08:49:37 -0400 |
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Dear pedantic curmudgeon,
Thank you for upholding the standards of spelling and grammar. I always
find such errors jarring and have an inclination to correct them, but
not the time.
Meli Diamanti
Tim Thompson wrote:
> Yargh! I feel like one of those crusty old curmudgeons, at least one
> of which shows up on everyone's dissertation committee, but in the
> interest of students and the impressionable young that might be on
> this list, I'm compelled to point out:
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> Amy, "impact" is not a verb. I know the native speaker is always right
> (Dr. Hardaman beat it into my brain) but we don't have to be natives
> of the community of illiteracy.
>
> Marcy, the expression is not ". . . fair so well . . ." but " . . .
> fare so well . . .", as in "wayfaring" or traveling.
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> Academic and bureaucratic gobbledy gook is bad enough, but can't we
> maintain some devotion to clear writing?
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> Tim T.
> pedantic curmudgeon
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