Feb 18, 2005 . Blowing off Strunk and White. Over at Language Log, they take aim at Strunk and White, long revered in newsrooms. Is nothing sacred? Nah . .

Dec 3, 2004 . Use of Strunk and White considered harmful. If you haven't already read it, you should definitely read today's Language Log post on how .

Jun 20, 2006 . On Language Log, Professors Liberman and Pullum and a dozen or so other . by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White, who instructed writers, .

Strunk & White Bashing. Malcolm A. Kline, December 20, 2010 . the same title ( and for more Strunk & White bashing, the blog Language Log is *fantastic*, .

Geoffrey Pullum, a professor of linguistics and contributor to Language Log, has just written a harsh review of Strunk & White's Elements of Style . .

3 posts - 2 authors - Last post: Jun 15, 2006By chance I was reading about just this point on the Language Log yesterday. Apparently Strunk & White (widely regarded in the US as .

Feb 24, 2005 . Lately, Anti-Strunk-And-White Jihad Language Log has devoted a number of posts to an assault on the admittedly deserving The Elements of .

Apr 16, 2009 . Strunk had very little analytical understanding of syntax, White even less. . Pullum, in a similar rant on the Language Log blog, .

Jan 9, 2011 . Q. Your colleague Geoff Pullum, at Language Log, has made it his personal goal to tear down Strunk and White. What's wrong with "The .

3 posts - 2 authors - Last post: Apr 6, 2010Living in England, I grew up oblivious to Strunk and White and only heard . Geoff Pullum (of Language Log) is well known for his detailed .

252, Sometimes Strunk and White are right (1 July 2010), http://languagelog.ldc. upenn.edu/nll/?p=2420. 251, Applause, please, for a great headline (30 June .

Jul 4, 2006 . According to the principles enunciated by Strunk and White , the Declaration of Independence is an awful piece of writing. .

Apr 11, 2009 . IT'S STRUNK-BASHIN' TIME AGAIN. Geoff Pullum, of Language Log . .. In other words, do not make Strunk & White the whipping boys for the .

Mar 12, 2010 . Given Language Log's rather constant criticism of Safire's prescriptive . . I think flaunting Strunk & White's advice is a completely .

Far from the Madding Gerund and other dispatches from the Language Log . about language]. Pullum pans Strunk and White relentlessly. A few early samples: .

Today, a post at the Language Log blog starts: For the last dozen years, it's been known that young people who follow the stylistic advice of Strunk & White .

Mar 24, 2009 . Language Log vs. Strunk and White. Regarding my aforelinked praise for Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, a bunch of DF readers .

Apr 8, 2008 . I was curious about how Strunk and White would formulate the .

Sotomayor and Strunk and White re: [languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu]. by Joel Aufrecht 11:37 AM, 14 Jun 2009. I'd like to see the Supreme Court get more liberal. .

Jun 20, 2006 . Analyzing Eggcorns and Snowclones, & Challenging Strunk & White, . But that is what they do on Language Log, a funny, wide-ranging blog .

Apr 5, 2010 . I have decided that my campaign against Strunk and White's toxic . Admission is free, and Language Log readers get a 30% discount off that .

Apr 15, 2009 . So, I'd respectfully suggest that you and others do your homework with regard to Strunk & White, lest you join Pullum and the Language Log .

Jan 15, 2005 . Language Log · « Subtle Distinctions | Main | Was it .

Mar 21, 2009 . Linguist Geoffrey Pullum of Language Log fame also hates the shit out of Strunk & White. I saw Geoff Pullum speak at MIT once (at the .

Apr 16, 2009 . Strunk, White, The Red Sox, And Professor Pullum . I'm a devoted reader of the Language Log blog, and remember well this little gem on the .

Language Log is a popular linguistics blog; Liberman runs it, . . Any book that calls The Elements of Style "Strunk and White's little book of (expletive)" .

Feb 18, 2005 . One of the sternest strictures delivered in Strunk & White .

Sep 6, 2008. page of "Stuart Little," as Geoffrey Pullum noted at Language Log: ''Mrs. . Usage tastes changed between Strunk's heyday and White's, .

Geoff Pullum, linguist and (among other things) contributor to the magnificent Language Log, has a sharp critique of Strunk & White at the Chronicle of .

Strunk and White's The Elements of Style notes both uses. . .. they": God said it, I believe it, that settles it, Language Log 13 September, 2006. .

Nov 30, 2010 . Retitling Strunk & White. via languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu. Now I know what to get my mother for Christmas! (Thx @burr86 for the link) .

Jul 4, 2010 . Still, it falls foul of Strunk & White's 19th principle in their Elements of . via Language Log: Still more Declaration of Independence. .

Dec 8, 2006 . The cabal of linguistics professors at Language Log likes to laugh at Strunk and White. They go especially hard on using the active voice .

The Elements of Style (1918), aka Strunk & White, by William Strunk, Jr., . . He also criticizes The Elements of Style in Language Log, a linguists' blog .

Jul 1, 2010 . Strunk's work was revised by his former student, E.B. White, to create The Elements of Style (now frequently called Strunk & White) which .

Oct 11, 2007 . Strunk and White I think that the reason this one is such a classic . . has had the good fortune to finally be discussed on Language Log. .

Sep 8, 2008. sentimental essay on the Strunk and White Elements of Style, and that has, predictably touched off a little outburst at Language Log. .

"With 'Madding Gerund' and Language Log, descriptivists have finally found .

Sep 30, 2010 . Language Log has conditioned me to reject Strunk & White and by extension be suspicious about any book which tells me how to write. .

Feb 22, 2005 . Strunk & White debunked? Those of us interested in linguistics might want to check out Language Log, an interesting and enlightening group .

66 posts - 25 authors - Last post: Jul 16, 2009[Archive] Strunk and White. Critical Theory and Philosophy of Language. . What Mr. Pullum says (and I've been following his language log .

Apr 25, 2009 . It's a great big fat ugly reference work and I never mentioned it in connection with why Strunk and White are bumbling grammar idiots or .

Geoffrey K. Pullum at Language Log explains how usage of the singular “they” works and why it is . Strunk and White baldly assert that this is an error. .

Jan 12, 2009 . Language Log is firmly in the descriptivist camp). Strunk and White's The Elements of Style seems to have been the standard grammar book in .

Apr 14, 2009 . Geoff Pullum, linguist and (among other things) contributor to the magnificent Language Log, has a sharp critique of Strunk & White at the .

Mar 16, 2011 . At what point did language stop moving forward? . And yet, as Strunk and White continue to be taught, the English language continues to evolve. . Language Log http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/ .

Apr 9, 2011 . Strunk and White remind me of point 22, on p. . . But after reading all those bright linguists trashing it on Language Log, it occurred to .

Nov 8, 2008 . In The Programming Aphorisms of Strunk and White, James Devlin . .. (from http: //itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004176.html) .

May 19, 2009 . Language lessons: E. B. White '21 and a canine companion in his New . blog Language Log (www.languagelog.com, search "Strunk & White"). .

Apr 11, 2009 . Via Language Log, where Pullum blogs; he's been having it out with . it's okay ", which overrides most of Strunk and White's grammar. .

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