[sdiy] OT: grammar, spelling and communication

[Leslie Schwartz]

All fine and good but my expectations are that these communications will be every day colloquial English with some technical jargon
and colloquialisms thrown in.

Also I am not offended by natural speech and flow of consciousness natural speech which at least in my own mind doesn't pay strict
attention to tense and some of the other niceties asked for by the previous complainers.

Personally, I think if your asking for more than that your mind is not on topic for this message board.

As you can imagine the MS Word grammar algorithm is going nuts on this message and nearly everything else I write.

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Subject: Re: [sdiy] OT: grammar, spelling and communication

I agree with all of this.  Their is know better reason too study grammar (and get to know it real good) then to help make
communication better, which I am a big fan of.

Hehe, actually, I am a graduate philosophy student and if anyone really wants to read exactly how SERIOUS this issue is in terms of
what we can claim to know, what we can claim about anything whatsoever, there are a couple CHAPTERS or so (yes, that's right) in
Bertrand Russell's "Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy" that analyze nothing but words such as 'the' and 'and' and 'a'....this
is more important than you may initially think, not merely for "practical" fields like engineering etc., but indeed for reason qua
reason.

"There is no better reason to study grammar (and know it well) than to help us better communicate . [and I will add, to aid in
understanding the very structure of thought itself...]."  Of course, the last part should be changed to "of which I am a big fan" -
but it didn't really fit the flow anyway ;-)

JpM

PS - blame the English analytics.  A "blame" I feel is highly worthwhile and admirable.
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