[thelist] Question...
Stephen Rider
evolt_org at striderweb.com
Wed Jul 2 14:19:57 CDT 2003
Stanley's long (and accurate) email can be summed up in a saying I've
held to for many years now:
You have to learn to draw inside the lines before you can draw outside
them.
Or to put it another way, if (for example) a poet knows grammar very
well, then he is free to make specific (and entirely deliberate)
choices about how he wants to "play" with it. If he doesn't know _how_
to properly put a sentence together, anything worthwhile he produces
will by necessity involve a large dose of dumb luck.
Learning and understanding grammar gives _you_ a great deal more
control over your own writing.
Respectfully,
Steve Rider
On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 11:50 AM, Stanley Coen wrote:
> Ryan - I... cannot ignore the implication that to engage in proper
> spelling and grammar is nothing more than slavish adherence to norms.
<snip>
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