European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 16 columns the stars and stripes wednesday August 6.198b today s crossword rules Are made to be followed i have a pessimistic thought that slowly is ripening to a doleful conclusion the Rales of grammar Are increasingly being disdained. Do the schools still Inch the difference Between objective and Nomi native pronouns Between singular and plural pro nouns if so Many professionals must have missed class thai Day. The Orange county Calif Register carried a Story about a brother and sister separated in childhood and reunited in Middle age. Their lives had been remarkably parallel they each married twice. The each had four children. And they each moved out West her 10 Arizona him to Yip esl Maria Shriver of lbs news writing in vanity fair recalled an admonition from her childhood my parents used to Tell me thai just because a per son has Money does not make them Maria Ralph Turlington writing a guest Niece for Florida today described efforts to recruit 7,000 new teachers for Florida schools. Prospects were to be invited to a two Day fair in Orlando. Each arriving teacher candidate Wilt receive a Welcome packet of information complimentary items and a computer printout which matches their credentials and experience with District Turlington is Florida s commissioner of education. Mercy elsewhere in Florida a new High school principal was interviewed about Young people today. Every body has the same Goat to better themselves he him 10 the principal s office the Washington Post quoted political strategist Edward j. Rollins on Republican presidential Hope Fuls in 1988 the Field is going to be wide open and anyone who assumes Clear Cut process is awed in Indianapolis the makers of glycol skin car products ran a full Page and in the Indianapolis monthly. Or. Christian Barnard said in thai his study of skin changes in old people has led my colleague Sand i to identify a doctor in Seattle a sportswriter devoted a laudatory column to the great golfer Bobby Jones. This was his dramatic last paragraph who was Bobby Jones that was bogey double bogey i have a broody chauvinist notion that some of these horrid examples Are a consequence of women s lib the movement that has contributed to English such abomination to fresh person and Wail per writers have become so paralysed by fear of being called so Xii that their fingers cannot Type everybody want to better himself. As i have suggested before some of these difficulties May be avoided by fleeing to plural constructions All children want to belter All arriving teachers will receive computer printouts that match their an unfounded notion persist that prose composition is governed by All kinds of never split an infinitive. Never end a sentence with a preposition. Never begin a sentence with and or do nol indulge in sentence fragments. These Are not rules they Art no More than sensible recommendations. Grammar is something else. Some of the old rules have faded but subjects and predicates still have to agree in number and nominative and objective pro nouns have to be properly employed. The rules of spelling Are equally binding. The office manager of a printing Supply House in Alexandria,va., recently sent out a form letter asking for Price lists if you would be so kind Aslo Eji Speedie these i would greatly appreciate in Tampa fla., a Flower shop promoted Secre Laric s a Florida publication called data bus interviewed industrialist David Rush chairman of a High tech Council that is attempting to unite government Industry and Educa Tion. Said the reporter the result of this Triumph rent Hopes Rush will be the realization of his vision of the new 1 could develop a real affection for sex Speedie but what is one to say of Triumph rent i say we had better leave triumvirate alone. A reproachful letter came the other Day from teacher of English. She was weary of my Fulmis Nalion about dangling participles misspelled words and errors in you Ever think about the effect your columns have on most people she asked most people Are convinced that writing is a skill thai can be acquired Only by a gifted few. One of the reasons for such an Altitude is the constant criticism most people receive for their budding writing she went on to say that she used to believe in the criticism method herself. She wondered Why so Many of her students haled writing. Then she changed he approach. She encouraged her students to gel their thoughts on paper Willy Nilly without regard to spelling punctuation or syntax. After discussion of their papers the students edited and corrected them. The results of this approach she said have been by taking away the mystery and Humilia Tion her students have come to love writing. Up to a Point i would agree completely with this teacher. Red pencils can be Poison to imaginative pupils. If a paper is resumed looking As if it had a bad Case of measles a child who has struggled with a assignment is bound to get discouraged. Alt the same in seems to me that writing cannot be disconnected from the rules that govern writing. Everything ideally ought to go together so that we learn to spec and to punctuate As we go along. The danger in my Friend s two step approach i suspect is that the second Stepion t nearly As much fun As the first step and is Likely never to be mastered at All. In any event my purpose in this column is nol to humiliate anyone. My purpose is to encourage Amateur writers to become belter writers and to prompt professional writers to lend to their knitting. If at limes i get crotchety Well i Hope to be lovingly , with love to the Chicago Sun times where a nodding copy editor put a headline Over a Story about capital punts ment White males now prize target mercy me. The word is not executor but and a hug and a kiss to the mount airy . News for complaining that presid it Reagan s critics depict him As a War , maybe laurels Loo to the Las vegas Sun for a social note lighting red pirs and adding Blush tinges to lace table covers were someone ought to Blush Over that spelling that s for sure. The new York times described the new space age building of general foods in Rye Brook . In is reached Tyiran Aversing a Bridge Over a seven acre my thought is that travelling would have been belter. The Philadelphia inquirer carried a feature Story about a ver rooster who rents sugar Maple Trees to expatriate new englander. Headline fun on a pre carious a air was vicarious not intended a columnist in the Las vegas review journal re called an Early to series you Are the pro Gram dramatized historical events the assassination of Caesar the signing of Mains Carta the succession of the Southern states. If at first Youdon t secede try try again. The Miami Herald provided a splendid photo Cap lion a construction worker pushes a wheel barrel on the Job in Gainesville it s not a Walkway that he s hard at work on that s a roof he is walking on with the empty Roll out the Barrow chums and let s Nave a Barrow of fun Isador Silverman of Mayfield Heights Ohio passes along an explanatory statement from medi care Hospital insurance cover impatient so it goes so it goes and Pardon a curmudgeon s red Pencil. Fifth graders we can forgive. Grown unsought to do better. By Eugene she offer across 43 den1 did t 44 he hat say yes to de in i song 41 de la 4 gent Stone rente8 Cord game Honor ten 12 do. Lob Flowers Yang of. 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