Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/06/24

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Subject: [Leica] declining quality of writing
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Thu Jun 24 17:34:14 2004

On 6/24/04 6:17 AM, "Steven A. Melnyk" <melnyk@msu.edu> wrote:

> One of the best books about writing and how to write effectively has
> got to be Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style."  Short, dense,
> and informative -- it should be in every writer's library.
> 
> Steve Melnyk
> Michigan State University
> 
I lost my old one so I just got a new one last week and it is silver now not
white. Which is of course entirely inappropriate. It's a NEW addition though
which was done in the year 2000. For this millennium. So in a sense the
silver ain't so bad at all.
But should be perhaps called "Strunk and Silvers"
It fits in your back pocket but if they made a vest pocket edition they
could call it "Shrunk-and White's".
Depending on the color.
If they came out with a scratch and sniff edition it could be called the
"Stunken ...."



Mark Rabiner
Photography
Portland Oregon
http://rabinergroup.com/




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