Calling Linguists and Lexicographers: Do You Love Grammar? Then Remember: Good Writing Is Good Writing—Even if You Capitalize “TIME” Magazine and Say “Most Importantly”

September 6th, 2011

Calling Linguists and Lexicographers: Do You Love Grammar? Then Remember: Good Writing Is Good Writing—Even if You Capitalize “TIME” Magazine and Say “Most Importantly”

A few recent posts from my language blog, Sprachgefuhl:

✔ ”most important,” or “most importantly”?

✔ TIME Magazine? Time Magazine? Time magazine?

✔ Linguists vs. Lexicographers: Why Stylebooks Should Not Be Dictionaries

✔ Good Writing Is Good Writing

✔ Do You Love Grammar?

Posted by Jonathan Rick in Language
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Felling straw men says more about the feller than the felle.

If one addresses only the weakest arguments, one betrays the weakness of one’s own arguments.

Scholars, on the other hand, refuse…

“to argue sophistically, to suppress facts or arguments, to misstate the elements of the case, or misrepresent the opposite opinion.”

Scholars “use an intellectual scalpel…

rather than an ideological bludgeon,” to engage honestly and thoroughly with the most forcible criticism.

No Straw MenEnlightened discourse proscribes arguments that are weak or imaginary, like straw, set up only to be confuted summarily.

Calling Linguists and Lexicographers: Do You Love Grammar? Then Remember: Good Writing Is Good Writing—Even if You Capitalize “TIME” Magazine and Say “Most Importantly”

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Felling straw men says more about the feller than the felle.

Scholars, on the other hand, refuse…

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