Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!ut-sally!jsq From: jsq@ut-sally.UUCP (John Quarterman) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: re: flammable vs. inflammable and Strunk & White Message-ID: <951@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-Feb-84 17:21:47 EST Article-I.D.: ut-sally.951 Posted: Sat Feb 11 17:21:47 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Feb-84 05:29:33 EST References: <606@ihuxq.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 6 The main problem I found with Strunk and White was that this "manual of style" was unreadable. If you want to be literate, read literature, not a collection of misapplied arbitrary rules. -- John Quarterman, CS Dept., University of Texas, Austin, Texas jsq@ut-sally.ARPA, jsq@ut-sally.UUCP, {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!jsq