Re: Grammar


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Posted by Peter Ceresole on January 29, 2008 at 03:48:23 from 80.176.146.133 user PeterC.

In Reply to: Re: Grammar posted by Jock on January 28, 2008 at 16:44:33:

I wonder whether AR's work as a foreign reporter on the Manchester Guardian influenced his writing style.

I suspect that it did. There's nothing like writing journalism for a good editor to reduce the adjective count and get the verbs pointing in the right direction.

Perhaps the best discipline is having to do the history of the world related to the problem of human consciousness in 550 words. Every week... Makes a man of you...


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