[WikiEN-l] a valid criticism

charles matthews charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
Fri Oct 7 06:36:15 UTC 2005


Tony Sidaway wrote

>Wait until they've been dead for a decade or so, and the wave of
amateurism will give way to more professional writing.

OTOH ...

Reading this list,. anyway, you'd think driving out 'amateurism' was defined 
by NPOV, NOR and sources.  Not by Fowler, Gowers, Strunk-White.  We hardly 
hear about 'style crimes'; and it has been argued that lame, academic style 
is kind of OK.

More subediting needed.

Charles






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