(urth) sentient trees yes, usage no

Ranjit Bhatnagar ranjit at moonmilk.com
Sat Sep 2 13:48:50 PDT 2006


Bom Miller wrote:
> Speaking of literature and speaking of language usage are topics that can
> not be separated.  Communication requires reasonable language use.

Look, just think of these as like Asimov's three laws of robotics.
Only there's just two of them that I'm concerned with here, but bear
with me:

> I wrote:
>
>  > Talking about the works of Gene Wolfe: GOOD
>  > Talking about matters of English usage: DISCOURAGED...
....except where such discouragement would conflict with the First Law.

And now for a new rule:
Nitpicking the rules - AW, WHAT THE HECK. GO FOR IT.

- ranjit



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