"Guido" wrote in message
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Ed Huntress wrote:
"Proctologically Violated©®" wrote in message
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As an unprofessional writer, but quite the connoisseur of
professionally-written bull****, those rules are *excellent guidelines*,
altho everything can be bent for stylistic purposes.


Are we having fun yet?

The "rules," in addition to being funny, are mostly bad rules. Rick is
right
about that. But that isn't the point, I don't think. I think the point
was
to have some fun with rules. That they are mostly goofy rules in the
first
place is part of the joke. I think. Anyway, that's how I read them.


Most of them come from Fowler's Modern English at least they
look to be from his examples of how following certain rules
will mark you out as an unthinking idiot.

That sounds possible. They look like those lists of rules that are meant to
be broken.

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Ed Huntress