antecedents
Mark A. Mandel
mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU
Wed Jul 19 22:16:02 UTC 2006
Beverly wrote:
>>
For the past several years I've had students who in fact tell me they were
taught not to use pronouns in writing. The result is a constant repetition
of nouns where pronominal substitutions would have been perfectly
comprehensible. Most annoying.
<<
arnold bemoaned it:
>>
it is to weep. i begin to think that by now I've Heard It All. and then
along comes something like this.
surely a SOTA.
<<
Or at least a PITA.
-- Mark
[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]
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