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Re: The Importance of "The"

Subject: Re: The Importance of "The"
From: Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 21:55:18 -0400




Bonnie Granat wrote:

Scott Tiner wrote:


Can anybody provide an eloquent argument (maybe an
online article) for including definite articles in
procedures?



It's not eloquent, but here's something: writing came into existence
for one reason only. That reason is the bedrock on which all writing
must continue to stand.

That is, writing represents *speech.* It stands for speech. Writing is
not code, or shorthand, or a test of one's ingenuity. It is a
substitute for human speech.



Or, if Bonnie will forgive me,

Not eloquent but here. Writing exist one reason. Reason bedrock all writing stand on. Writing "speech." Stands speech. Not code. Not test ingenuity. Substitute speech, Kemosabe.*

[Lest anyone misunderstand, this is a parody of Hollywood's racist and obnoxious pseudodialect used in old Westerns. I do not harbor any illusion that real Native Americans ever spoke like this.]



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