If you really want to learn almost all of the important aspects of writing in the English language, the reference I use with frequency is "Elements of Style," by Strunk and White. There is a no cost online version that you can find with google.
For listserv posts, the grammar needn't be too great as long as your meaning can be easily derived. In business and other correspondence Professor Strunk and EB White have pulled my butt out of lingual disasters pretty often. cdh On Dec 27, 2009, at 12:55 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > Ah your correct and my error. THanks for pointing my mistake out, it will > help me remember and improve. :) > On Dec 27, 2009, at 10:11 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Because I was an English major in graduate school, I can't help myself: You >> wrote, "sometimes, "There is no right or wrong answer here Erik, merely >> objective points of view..." This is "subjective" rather than "objective" >> points of view. An objective measurement of a computing device might be how >> quickly it sorts a set of items - this results in a metric which can be >> compared without user influence on the outcome. Subjective is, "I like the >> iPhone because it feels really nice in my hand." which has no way to >> specifically define a metric for "feels good" so falls into subjectivity. >> >> Kill me before I turn entirely back into Conan the Grammarian! >> >> cdh >> On Dec 23, 2009, at 11:57 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: >> >>> There is no right or wrong answer here Erik, merely objective points of view >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
