Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: "The Light: Shelby's Addendum" AVAILABLE NOW


8 Dec 1995 14:59:58 GMT

Magnus Olsson (mol@marvin.df.lth.se) mentioned in rec.arts.int-fiction that::
> BTW, I can't see what's ungrammatical about "A strangeness has fallen".
> Surely it's grammatically correct?

Ack. I feel I keep explaining this, so I'll post it again.
I _meant_ to say the prescriptive grammarian in me - which would be
appropriatem since prescriptive grammarians say things like, "lets ban the
word 'this'" and "let's not use cliched forms of sentances." ;^)

John "I won't touch this topic again" Holder

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