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RE: Active versus passive (WAS Displays versus Appears-Which One? )
Subject:RE: Active versus passive (WAS Displays versus Appears-Which One? ) From:"Susan Ahrenhold" <sahrenhold -at- winspc -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 20 Dec 2000 15:36:41 -0500
Al Miller noted that:
>> Good writers have a good ear for language. I suspect (I'm
>> not a linguist, just an interested bystander) this leads one to
>> instinctively write correctly (whatever that means) because it *sounds*
>> right.
This brings an interesting point, which is that, while I try not to be be a
"grammar nazi," some sentences HURT to hear, just like a clinker when
listening to the symphony. It's not that I think other people are stupid, or
ignorant, it's an intuitive "Can't they HEAR how bad that sounds?"
Maybe my ears are more doglike than I thought ;>)
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