European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 18, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes monday january 18,1988 column beware the misused negative by James kilpatr1ck beware negative constructions they can gel you in All kinds of trouble. Thai is the Lent for Oday. Chapter and verse the ombudsman for a West cram newspaper commented some months ago on an error that had appeared in the new York times in to nth said he critic the error was minor. It involved whether u. Cot. Oliver North had said specifically thai neither president Reagan nor Congress was nol to be told about a secret fund to be channelled to the somehow an extra "not1 crept into that sen tence snuggled against a neither and a nor and the result was nol Telic Loui a publication called Harde Opy serves is a news letter far tinker Man computer enthusiasts the organization s president had some Stem words in the december Issue on membership participation every member that docs not come 10 the meetings is letting someone else make every decision concerning the club for him or her. No one that does not come to the meetings., has any right to complain about any action tace takes All Clear a year ago the Lancaster a sunday news had this 1o say of the nit Lany Lions their Lack of pretension and abundance of poise arc a combination thai does t rank High on hype. A curious anonymity surrounds them. What Tfir team in any sport docent have their play re names on of its jerseys Good question. Some months ago the Knight Ridder news service provided a piece on electronic warfare. The reporter quoted a defense analyst it in t obvious to me that electronic warfare As we know it today in t in fact a technology with a less than sparkling future does anyone wish to Sirai Thien that out in his Best Selling wok too funny to be president rep. Morris Udall recalls the Lime a reporter asked gov. Nelson Rockefeller to explain his views on Vietnam. Wit great Igor the governor replied my position on Viet Nam is very simple. And i feel this Way i Haven t spoken on it because i Haven t Felt then was any major contribution thai 1 had to make at the time. I think thai our concepts As o notion and that our actions have not kept Pace with the changing conditions. And therefore our actions Are not compact Ely relevant today to the realities of the magnitude and the complexity of the problems that deface in this what docs Hal mean governor a Puu cd reporter inquired. Just what i Laid Rocky replied. Negative constructions contribute richly to the prose Hal is known As gobbledygook a chocolate Chip Vocab ulary aim helps the cause along. The associated press Analysed a lacklustre Day in the Stock Market this past August the Advance was limited in scope and reflected resilient nervousness about the Market s Overall direct Whalin the Devil is resilient nervousness in Scaillet jurors at an Virchil Clural exhibition liked a condominium on waterfront place it offers an Aslon is Bingly single minded and coherent Resolution fan Atti tude and a design vocabulary to achieve an almost her Metic personal universe through the vedic la of a living right. Writers of us Law Are masters of the foggy phrase for i ample for purposes of paragraph 3an described in paragraph 2 Hal the droned to include Knorp Bizalion described in Section 50l cx4. If or 6 which would be described in paragraph 2 if it Wen an described in Section Iol Coj Call your lawyer a Good thing to end a so Norm with the Issue recurs. It will never go away. Once again for no seasonal reason i can think of the mail brings cries of anguish Al supposed violation of the Rale against end ing a sentence with a preposition. To Art aggrieved gentlewoman in Seattle and in irate octogenarian in Miami Lei me say Ai kindly As i can heir is nol now a Rule against ending a sentence with preposition. There never has been such a Rule. The very Best and most respectable writers of English have rejected so binding a Strat Jackd. They have agreed thai in certain construction a preposition is a useful port of speech to end a sentence with. Consider the venerable Fowler. He described the sup Rosed Rale As a cherished to is a hangover from the notion Hal because one cannot put a preposition later than its object in latin one must not do in English when Ibe nation is slavishly followed one gels into artificial Fower remarks thai Hal de pends on what they Are Cut with is not improved by making the sentence read that depends on with what they arc or even worse thai depends on the answer to the question As in with what hey Are Thomas Elliott Berry one of the Foremost american authorities is unequivocal on the Issue. sign the Lite John Brymner god rest him described the Rule As the work of some Mossback cd to recast what did you write about to mate in read about what did you write says Brymner is a Terri versa Ion to be laughed at Theodore Bernstein Hal master editor had nothing Good o say about the the truth is he sued that however that the end of a sentence is a conspicuous Pooi and therefore can be e Strong Point his advice test the strength of the preposition. Some preposition Are remarkably Strong what do you think you re getting into Williams and Mary Morris put the Issue 1o their panel in the Harper dictionary of contemporary would members of the panel object to a sentence on the ground Hal it ended with a preposition Twenty percent said yes but so percent said no. Abe Burton and Peter pc Scott called the idea silly and Elizabeth Jan Way termed in Pedantic having quoted All these teamed Fellows let me now quote a non Tim Neil authority namely me. The place ment of a preposition depends on the sound and the rhythm of a sentence. That is the sum and substance of the Natter. Generally speaking because prepositions Are More often weak than Strong it Worta belter to avoid the sent enc in Der. 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