Monday, November 07, 2005

Credit...

Yeah, Gelernter's right. To bowdlerize Strunk and White to make them PC...just mind boggling.

posted by Finnegan @ 5:40 PM   1 comments

1 Comments:

At 7:48 PM, Blogger Evan said...

This is true...we should bowdlerize S & W because it teaches people to write like flavourless prosebots. They're about the worst disaster in Western letters since the burning of the Alexandria library.

 

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