You shudder at a split infinitive, know when to use that or which and would never confuse less with fewer – but are these rules always right, elegant or sensible, asks linguist Steven Pinker (official). Check out some rules of grammar that Pinker says we can break (sometimes) in this article in The Guardian. Pinker is an experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, linguist and popular science author and professor at Harvard University. He is also the author The Sense of Style: the Thinking Persons Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, a style-guide that seeks to be the Strunk & White of the modern writing era. #linguistics #langchat #language #languages #learnenglish #teachenglish
Posted on: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 14:33:27 +0000
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