On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Ray Saintonge <[email protected]> wrote: > One can hardly call a respect for good grammar pedantry.
If by "respect", you mean, congratulating those that use "good grammar", then I don't disagree. If, otoh, you mean, "fixing" minor errors or criticising mistakes...then yes "one can". > The quality of information is diminished when it is expressed by imprecise > language. "Most well known" is hardly an example of that. There are probably even examples of grammatical incorrectness which are more precise than what is "correct". I'm not even sure that precision and correct grammar are all that correlated. > Good grammar and usage is exactly what makes it readable. No, readability has much more to do with appropriate use of vocabulary, sentence length and phrase construction. Correct grammar that is unfamiliar to the audience decreases readability. Just like referring to the "spit and image" of someone would be less readable than the "spitting image". Steve _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
