Yep, another Elecraft related thread with lots of life.. Jim K4JAF
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lew Phelps K6LMP" <[email protected]> To: "Elecraft Reflector" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:54 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: dangles > We are getting 'way off topic here, but I can't resist adding a similarly > constructed sentence I learned from a professor who taught English Writing > courses at Pomona College. He sets the scene with two boys walking > through a cemetery on a dark night, naturally afraid what would suddenly > materialize to scare them. One boy looks down the path and observes a > large bush. He observes, "That's a good bush to be jumped out from behind > of at!" > > Prof. Weismiller -- like most good writers -- scorned the rule that > forbids ending a sentence with a preposition. The rule is an artifact of > Latin, which contributes barely more than half the vocabulary of the > English language and less of its grammatical structure. > > I have been a journalist (ten years with Wall Street Journal) and a > professional writer for almost half a century. I have never gone out of my > way to rewrite a sentence so that it does not end in a preposition, and I > have never had an editor perform such unnecessary surgery on my prose. The > best rule is a simple one: if it sounds natural, use it! > > 73, > > Lew K6LMP > > > On Dec 7, 2010, at 12:30 PM, David Honey wrote: > >> I remember hearing Stephen Fry in a radio show talk about >> prepositions at the end of sentences. He mentioned a competition to >> find the most used in a sentence. The winner was a line about someone >> reading a book about Australia and bringing it upstairs: "What did >> you bring that book about down under up for?" >> :-) >> >> vy 73 >> David M0DHO >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
