The author in question behaves much as she did in school, methinks-most students now, when given a poor grade, go over the teacher's head and get it changed. love grammatical incoherence.?) but also the educational system: The problem, apparently, isn't just with publishers (who apparently. Punctuation is constantly under attack (not just "evolving," but going out the door.) Prepare yourself for a whole lot more like her, and a lot fewer of the rest of us. Unfortunately, the trend today is to reject people who write properly and to accept people who write incoherently. In Ann Leckie's comments, shalanna writes: Others, however, want to diagnose this as part of a larger, pernicious social problem. I'm quite happy to lay this at the feet of the pomposity of the kind of writer who would flame her reviewers. The author's insistence suggests to me that at least for some percentage of subbers, the answer is, "They see nothing wrong with those sentences." Sometimes, when I read a sub that's got sentences in it like this, I think, "Did this person write this sentence, and then say to themselves Yes, that's it, that's exactly how it ought to be, that sentence is good enough to be published in "My Life's Ambition Is To Appear Here" magazine? Really?" I'm never sure if the subber thought those sentences were the bees knees, or whether they just figured "Eh, good enough," when it wasn't, or what. Obviously, she's wrong.Īnn Leckie writes (and I agree with her): Howett, author of sentences such as "Don and Katy watched hypnotically Gino place more coffees out at another table with supreme balance," is adamant that there is nothing grammatically wrong with her prose. However, in some fora the discussion has moved onto the subject of the grammatical errors themselves. Many people have commented on the obviously destructive behavior of flaming reviewers. Or possibly Jacqueline Howett's.įor those of you who have not followed the blog explosion, self-published author Jacqueline Howett has been busy imploding in the blog comments of a reviewer who pointed out the grammatical errors in her text. Rachel_swirskyI have been ranting today on the subject of grammar.
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