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 Post subject: Look, we're redundant
PostPosted: Mon May 31, 2004 7:24 pm 
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http://www.editorsoftware.com/stylewriter-software/


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 Post subject: Re: Look, we're redundant
PostPosted: Mon May 31, 2004 10:10 pm 
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<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Lee:
http://www.editorsoftware.com/stylewriter-software/<hr></blockquote><p>Yikes!<p>An excerpt from the site:<p>"StyleWriter works by teaching you to write in plain English - the style underlying all great writing. Don't think plain English is simplistic or patronizing. Plain English is clear English. It's the style of all great writers. Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck are writers with a simple, clear and direct style. Time, Newsweek, Scientific America and the Washington Post - just about every successful publication - owe their popularity and readership to adopting a clear, readable style."<p>You know, for once, I am not at all annoyed or insulted at U.S. News's being left out. I don't think I'd want my name associated with this for any reason. And I wonder if anyone reading this might infer that those publications listed have used this product.<p>And I just realized, they got Scientific American wrong. So much for their own editing prowess.<p>[ May 31, 2004: Message edited by: SusanV ]</p>


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 Post subject: Re: Look, we're redundant
PostPosted: Mon May 31, 2004 10:38 pm 
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And they ignore the point that Hemingway and Steinbeck had varying styles.


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 Post subject: Re: Look, we're redundant
PostPosted: Mon May 31, 2004 10:46 pm 
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And they leave out Fitzgerald and Joyce...


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 Post subject: Re: Look, we're redundant
PostPosted: Mon May 31, 2004 11:43 pm 
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<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by DominEditrix:
And they leave out Fitzgerald and Joyce...<hr></blockquote>
I know folk that right like Joyce. Alas.


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 Post subject: Re: Look, we're redundant
PostPosted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 12:03 am 
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<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Paul Wiggins:

I know folk that right like Joyce. Alas.
<hr></blockquote>[chuckle] I like a little confusion in the morning. Bloomsday approacheth. If I can borrow twenty quid from my aunt, we can go to Athens...<p>D.


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 Post subject: Re: Look, we're redundant
PostPosted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 1:02 am 
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My quilibrium is in a non-Zen state today. The subbery has flourescents turned off pending lighting change and we sit in this far place yonder in dim light.
Post should have read write like Joyce.


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