On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Richard Lawson wrote:

Hmm.  I'm wrong about the terminology, then.

Apparently.

I just intensely dislike descriptive passages that use "it" to define
nothing at all.  What, exactly, was dusk?  The world?

So you dislikepronouns with implied nouns.  You know what they say about
those kinds of things.  ^_^

Heh, listen to me.

I think that would be a bad idea in this case.

Yes, and that's my main problem with using "alright" even in "slangy"
usage.  Unlike "gonna" instead of "going to" or "Whaddya think"
instead of "What do you think", "alright" and "all right" both sound
identical.  So why not use the grammatically correct one?

Again, I simply can't believe you there.  All right and alright have
differences, mainly in the speed at which one speaks them.  Alright is
read as one unit, and spoken as one unit, therefore coming out as sounding
"faster" than all right.  All right can be used in conjunction with formal
speech easier than alright can.

And I ain't one to be messin' with da grammar.  Nosiree, I hate slang.

-Pulling out his Strunck and White just to brush up

Prescriptive grammar is the jailer under whom many writers are shackled.


--Matt (feeling saucy)


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