Ray Saintonge wrote: >> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 12:25:28 +1000 >> From: Steve Bennett <[email protected]> >> >> Disagree. High quality, comprehensive, readable information is far >> more important than English grammar pedantry. "Most well known" or >> "best known"? Whichever one is currently in the article. Focus your >> efforts elsewhere. >> >> > > One can hardly call a respect for good grammar pedantry. The quality of > information is diminished when it is expressed by imprecise language. > Good grammar and usage is exactly what makes it readable. > > > >> (Bias: Background in linguistics and technical writing.) >> > > So what? > IMX, copyeditors do have a bias towards laxer, even technically ungrammatical constructions, if they feel they communicate well with average readers. What Steve is saying is something I recognise as a coherent POV found in real life, therefore. I would accept the label "pedantic" for the point or points I have raised, but I think in certain examples the "wrong" construction also sounds wrong. It's an odd one: I think it is careless prose writing to put "more well known", but it doesn't stand out as an obvious colloquialism. I agree with Ec to the extent of saying my POV is different and certainly valid: smaller stylistic points do add up.
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