Hi, Shalanna.

--- Shalanna  wrote:

> Hmm.  What Fang said is all true.  Well stated!  

Thank'ee.  

> Nowadays 
> critiquers generally fall apart if you write, "she said tensely,"
> and they 
> insist you must instead of the adjective insert a tagline "showing"
> how the speaker is tense.  

Yeah, I do that.  Well, I don't fall apart. . . . 

> MN>Just try to picture Yoda talking in Noam Chomsky's grammatical
> form.
> 
> This gave me a headache.  A headache me this gave.  Alack!

"A headache does this give me; hmmmm."
 
>  >You've got to keep in mind, Lynn, that when someone says "This
> thou
>  >shalt not do in thine writing" they are usually making a Grand
>  >Proclamation based solely on their prejudices.  When some dolt
> says
>  >"your writing sucks" it's not that your writing sucks: it's that
> he
>  >doesn't get the point of the story and such a one never assumes
>  >that's because he's too dense to get it.
> 
> Exactly!  (Stolen for quotes file.  In fact, you ought to stick
> that in the database, Fangy.)

Done.  At least it's saved away for later filing and uploading.

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