- From: Gareth Hay <gazhay@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 17:22:57 +0100
- To: tina@greytower.net
- Cc: Jeff Schiller <codedread@gmail.com>, "Philip Taylor (Webmaster)" <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk>, public-html@w3.org, www-html@w3.org
On 4 May 2007, at 17:16, Tina Holmboe wrote: > > On 4 May, Jeff Schiller wrote: > >>>> Would you rather have a library: >>>> >>>> a) full of books written by anyone which may include some >>>> grammatical errors >>>> or >>>> b) contain only books written by people who can write 100% >>>> grammatically correct English >>> >>> (b). There is nothing worse than reading grammatically incorrect >>> prose. >>> >> >> "(b)." is not a valid sentence. Yoink, your email has been removed >> from my library... ;) > > In regards to (a) above, certainly. Why else would publishers spent > quite abit of resources making sure that books are as grammatically > correct as possible? > > Could it be that actually /following/ agreed on protocols of > communication makes communication /easier/? > > Personally I'd rather have one well-written book in grammatically > correct English than a thousand and one I couldn't make heads or > tail > of. > > But that's just me. it certainly isn't just you. I'm sure we are all aware that grammatical errors in texts /can/ completely mislead a reader unintentionally. G
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