grammar skillfully employed procures meaningful communication,
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From: Felmon Davis <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and "complex
documents"
To: [email protected]
On Tue, 28 Jul 2015, anne-ology wrote:
One of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's, Lewis Carroll, purpose in writing
> the Alice in Wonderland books was to show how the meaning can be
> misinterpreted when proper grammar is not used. My favorite example is
> Jabberwocky ;-)
>
but the grammar of Jabberwocky is perfectly correct!
[correct; although written to confuse any meaningful sense;
also, the use of puns are amusing due to their confusion in
meaning -
(for those to whom English is not their native language can be
much misled by those of us who enjoy the use of puns)]
Without good communication skills, then how can anyone be a part of
> any community ???
>
I doubt 'good communication skills' require 'proper' grammar.
[well, how would you punctuate this sentence? -
Woman without her man is helpless
(yes, it's an old time example used by probably every English
instructor since ... )
It could be 'Woman, without her man, is helpless.' or 'Woman:
without her, man is helpless.']
f.
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Felmon Davis
Where humor is concerned there are no standards -- no one can say what
is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
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