Comments on: About Errors of Grammar and Usage http://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/2009/01/11/about-errors-of-grammar-and-usage/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:08:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jessica E. Slavin http://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/2009/01/11/about-errors-of-grammar-and-usage/comment-page-1/#comment-4092 Jessica E. Slavin Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:31:03 +0000 http://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/?p=3225#comment-4092 Oh irony of ironies, Dean! It was a plain old garden variety unprofessional typo. I will update the post. Oh irony of ironies, Dean! It was a plain old garden variety unprofessional typo. I will update the post.

]]> By: Sean Samis http://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/2009/01/11/about-errors-of-grammar-and-usage/comment-page-1/#comment-4091 Sean Samis Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:21:44 +0000 http://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/?p=3225#comment-4091 "I wish to say that of Mrs. [Mary Baker] Eddy I am not requiring perfect English, but only good English. No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done. It was approached in the “well of English undefiled”; it has been approached in Mrs. Eddy’s Annex to that Book; it has been approached in several English grammars; I have even approached it myself; but none of us has made port." – Mark Twain in "Christian Science" “I wish to say that of Mrs. [Mary Baker] Eddy I am not requiring perfect English, but only good English. No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done. It was approached in the “well of English undefiled”; it has been approached in Mrs. Eddy’s Annex to that Book; it has been approached in several English grammars; I have even approached it myself; but none of us has made port.”

– Mark Twain in “Christian Science”

]]> By: Dean Strang http://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/2009/01/11/about-errors-of-grammar-and-usage/comment-page-1/#comment-4066 Dean Strang Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:24:35 +0000 http://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/?p=3225#comment-4066 I assume you meant only wry humor in rendering "phenomenology" as you did here. Williams offers the usual spelling before he errs more subtly for our collective benefit. I assume you meant only wry humor in rendering “phenomenology” as you did here. Williams offers the usual spelling before he errs more subtly for our collective benefit.

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