I was so waiting for someone to recognize the name Jud Strunk. Is there
no one here from New England - specifically, Maine, although JS
originated and played a lot in New York.
Lio wrote:
> oh. my. god. what a thread!
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> biggest. tangent. ever.
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> On 6/1/07, J Messeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> I knew Strunk's wife when I lived in Maine.
>> No, wait a minute -- that was Jud's wife I knew.
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>> Jeffrey Kaplan wrote:
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>>> On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 19:41:36 -0400 Craig Froehle said:
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>>>> On 6/1/07, Jeffrey Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>>>> On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:29:00 -0500 Alli said:
>>>>> What if I don't know the person is a "he"?
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>>>> Doesn't matter. If unknown or known to be a male, use "his."
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>>>> Strunk & White know all.
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>>> Strunk & White is also quite old. It was old when I was in high school
>>> 25 years ago. Some aspects of language do change, and English has
>>> pretty much always been fluid.
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>> /The erasure of a human subspecies is largely painless -- to us -- if we
>> know little enough about it. A dead Chinaman is of little import to us
>> whose awareness of things Chinese is bounded by an occasional dish of
>> chow mein. We grieve only for what we know./
>> A Sand County Almanac, /Aldo Leopold, July 1949/
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/The erasure of a human subspecies is largely painless -- to us -- if we
know little enough about it. A dead Chinaman is of little import to us
whose awareness of things Chinese is bounded by an occasional dish of
chow mein. We grieve only for what we know./
A Sand County Almanac, /Aldo Leopold, July 1949/
