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The Internet is one more electronic craze that market forces will sooner or later put in its proper context.
It’s hard to compete with Stanley Fish’s wisdom on the sentence and how to write a good sentence.
But where the title of a book on the grammar of good writing is concerned, no one can beat Constance Hale (who doesn’t have Fish’s star power).
The titles of Hale’s book on writing are redolent of anything but the dry act of conceiving and producing syntactically seismic prose.
Wired Style was followed by Sin and Syntax, and now we have Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch.
Genetically a tomato is richer than a person. It’s recently been discovered that the tomato has 31,760 genes, 7000 more than that of a person.
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[Plastic] is the first magical substance which consents to be prosaic.
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If you love someone with dark skin, white
skin looks drained of something vital.
skin looks drained of something vital.
