it is difficult not to write satire
May. 9th, 2009 05:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kindkitEvery once in a while I'm reminded of why I still read Language Log. Here's Geoff Nunberg's brilliant evisceration of Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, written in rhyming couplets à la Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism II.
ETA: I've just discovered a wonderful DreamWidth feature. If you crosspost something and then have to edit the post for whatever reason, editing on DreamWidth automatically edits the crosspost as well. That's very very cool.
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ETA: I've just discovered a wonderful DreamWidth feature. If you crosspost something and then have to edit the post for whatever reason, editing on DreamWidth automatically edits the crosspost as well. That's very very cool.
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