[Elecraft] OT: dangles

[Jim Cox]

Yep, another Elecraft related thread with lots of life..

Jim K4JAF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lew Phelps K6LMP" <k6lmp at me.com>
To: "Elecraft Reflector" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: dangles


> We are getting 'way off topic here, but I can't resist adding a similarly 
> constructed sentence I learned from a professor who taught English Writing 
> courses at Pomona College.  He sets the scene with two boys walking 
> through a cemetery on a dark night, naturally afraid what would suddenly 
> materialize to scare them.  One boy looks down the path and observes a 
> large bush. He observes, "That's a good bush to be jumped out from behind 
> of at!"
>
> Prof. Weismiller -- like most good writers -- scorned the rule that 
> forbids ending a sentence with a preposition. The rule is an artifact of 
> Latin, which contributes barely more than half the vocabulary of the 
> English language and less of its grammatical structure.
>
> I have been a journalist (ten years with Wall Street Journal) and a 
> professional writer for almost half a century. I have never gone out of my 
> way to rewrite a sentence so that it does not end in a preposition, and I 
> have never had an editor perform such unnecessary surgery on my prose. The 
> best rule is a simple one: if it sounds natural, use it!
>
> 73,
>
> Lew K6LMP
>
>
> On Dec 7, 2010, at 12:30 PM, David Honey wrote:
>
>> I remember hearing Stephen Fry in a radio show talk about
>> prepositions at the end of sentences. He mentioned a competition to
>> find the most used in a sentence. The winner was a line about someone
>> reading a book about Australia and bringing it upstairs: "What did
>> you bring that book about down under up for?"
>> :-)
>>
>> vy 73
>> David M0DHO
>>
>>
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