15
Apr
2009
If you still think Strunk & White is a good book
Submitted by Karl HagenTopic:
check out this withering critique by Geoff Pullum in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
If you're a regular Language Log reader, it won't be news to you. The article generally recapitulates points that Pullum has made on that blog over the last several years.
One thing that Pullum doesn't touch on but which I also find pernicious is the list of misused words, a list that always had a lot of questionable items but which, because of the books age, contains many objections that are now obsolete by any reasonable standard. (The occasional new editions have removed some of the most ridiculous ones, but others remain.)
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The enormity of it all!
Likely so