[Ads-l] Why is National Grammar Day different from all other days?

Randy Alexander strangeguitars at GMAIL.COM
Tue Mar 3 12:56:04 UTC 2015


Dennis, did you intentionally say "omit unnecessary words" instead of "omit
needless words"?

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Bonnie Taylor-Blake <b.taylorblake at gmail.com
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> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 7:26 PM, Baron, Dennis E <debaron at illinois.edu>
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> Here's a link to Dennis's recent Web of Language blog post:
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> https://illinois.edu/blog/view/25/134568
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> -- Bonnie
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