Re: Why grammar/spelling/style matters (Was: (Zachary) tayloring (Ran t/Long))

Subject: Re: Why grammar/spelling/style matters (Was: (Zachary) tayloring (Ran t/Long))
From: Roy Jacobsen <rjacobse -at- GREATPLAINS -dot- COM>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 14:54:16 -0600

Comeau, Lisa [mailto:Lisa -dot- Comeau -at- MOH -dot- GOV -dot- ON -dot- CA] writes:
>Roy, Roy, Roy... ;-)
>"The right answers, with the right spelling and the right grammar, in the
>right design and the right medium."
>
>That's like saying you want the perfect mate with the perfect body, the
>perfect personality, the perfect sense of humor - it's subjective, which, I
>believe, was the point of this thread...

That depends on how you define "is"...Oh, sorry, wrong thread.

Whatever the point of this thread _was_, I don't think it is entirely
subjective. At the very least, you can probably figure out if you got one
(or more) of the characteristics I listed _wrong_.

With spelling and grammar, it is usually easy to determine right from wrong.
They have a degree of subjectivity, but not as much as, say, design. But
even with design, one can say that some things are wrong (at least most of
the time). Blue text on a red background, for example, doesn't work well 99
44/100% of the time.

Regards,
Roy M. Jacobsen
Editor
Great Plains
rjacobse -at- greatplains -dot- com

Read and revise, reread and revise, keep reading and revising until your
text seems adequate to your thought. -- Jacques Barzun


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