RE: health warning

I certainly dont care for grammar as much as some do, but I do see it as
important because many people choose to disregard someone's work if it is
grammatically incorrect or unreadable. Certain people on this list might
actually be like that.........
Personally, I often just type as fast as I can not realizing it and what I
write is chock full of run-on sentences and fragments; throwing in the
occasional semi-colon or comma or period or whatever. For this list I dont
really mind if I sound deficient although I at least hope people get through
what I write. I also must say that the most boring classes I have ever had
were in elementary school when we were going over grammatical rules. Those
are the days when I was inclined to just lay my head down on my desk and sleep
or doodle so much on my notes that they become unreadable later.
-Levi

>===== Original Message From "Matthew S. Mahoney"
<matthew.s.mahoney@vanderbilt.edu> =====
>load of mahoney?
>
>and, while i dont wish to start another thread, my objection is a venting of
>frustration against a grading system where grammar is assigned as much worth
>as content. i think it is precisely that objectivity that lends itself to
such
>"popularity" and frequency among writers or teachers-its easy to get
identify,
>and thus easy to master-but how many younger writers or students do we all
>know who worry needlessly about grammatical rules instead of being encouraged
>to fulfill their creative potential? and while i certainly understand the
>enormous change in meaning given the subtle placing of commas, etc, the
>scrutiny of those rules as a whole disgusts me.
>
>
>>===== Original Message From Matt Kozusko <mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu>
>=====
>>"Matthew S. Mahoney" wrote:
>>
>>> other symptoms include: appreciating material for intrinsic value, not
>petty
>>> and arbitrary grammatical rules.
>>
>>Ah, the separation of form and content! We've been through this load of
>>mahoney before. Anyway, "intrinsic value" is surely more "arbitrary" a
>>matter than grammar, which at least approaches objectivity.
>>
>>--
>>Il n'y a pas de hors texte,
>>
>>Matt
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> -Albert Einstien
>
>Matthew S. Mahoney
>Station B 8209
>matthew.s.mahoney@vanderbilt.edu
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