0n (02 Jul 08) Roger Nelson wrote to Cindy Haglund...

 RN> [...]
 RN> CH>RN> ... I am the terror that posts in the night.

CH> "Who" not "that". Your English teacher, rolling.
remember :)

 RN> Those are random taglines, as you well know and I have no control over
 RN> them. Evidently, the person(s) who wrote them were asleep during
 RN> English class. Oh, the horror of it all!

  oops. And yes asleep during English class. Where I went to collge,
it was a tech school. It was said tech schools get bottom of the
barrel English profs because nobody is an English Major after all. SO
this one prof we had , teaching something about the History of
English, enjoyed putting us to sleep. He chewed gum, constantly wound
his watch and kept going on and on about middle English.

The class was on the first floor of the Science Building. One find
very warm afternoon, a frog hopped in, down from the Biology lab.

Now that had to hve been the most Exciting English class ever!
..................


CH> That sweet skinny book Fink and whomever says we need to cut back on
CH> "that".  I agree! (("Elements of Style"))

 RN> "That" is one of my favorite words and distrust ANYONE
who tells you

 Okay okay> You can use it. But if you read that book boy they really
really lay it on thick about that, that that 

But! Isn't it *that! (I'm teasing)..  amazing how the authors
illustrate show don't tell, bu actually doing it? Just look at the s
size of that book. It's power packed, It won't put you to sleep. I
If anything it will wake you up.

 RN> to cut back on the use of anything of the sort.  You really want them
 RN> doing your thinking for you?  Are you getting all of your thinking
 RN> processes from books?

 No. Of cousre not. But books have been my primary way  of getting
information. And a lot of books DO help you learn to think. :)

cinders

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