style madness

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Apr 29 21:22:12 UTC 2012


On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Of course, there are sound business reasons for sticking with the present:
> it saves space, it's more thrillingly "now."

Personally, I think that there's a plot afoot to destroy the concepts
of style and elegance as they relate to the written form of out
glorious language.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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