@MatthewJFranck@zenahitz@BryanGarnerLaw Copy that. TLDR--I was helping a teacher with some grammar instruction for her high school class. They were writing reviews of books and she asked me if there is a preferred style she should be encouraging them to use. All of the reviews had something like these opening sentences
Not sure if @BryanAGarner is still active, but was wondering if anyone might be able to help me here.
Grammatically and/or stylistically, which one of these sentences is best:
"In Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations..."
"In Great Expectations by Charles Dickens..."
@KassyKosher The part that I keep laughing about is that no one seems up in arms about the kashrus agency that certified the kosher cheeseburger. I mean, there's nothing wrong with what they did. But I find it funny that it's wrong for smash house to have it, but not wrong to certify it
Taking a break from my Twitter break to just say that I’ve been reading this book and am finding it really incredible. Ramban has not gotten his scholarly due, so this is a truly monumental work. Learning so much on every page
The crisis facing Western statecraft isn’t too much legalism or too little realism. It’s a crisis of formation. Why the polymath-statesman disappeared – and why that matters now. My new essay for @EngelsbergIdeas
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Mega-influencers shape the public imagination. @phillyd97 and @lukemoon1 explore a world where narrative matters more than fact.
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@zenahitz When I was in grad school, one of my professors said to the class that "Thucydides has not had a greater hype man in all of world history than Phillip Dolitsky." He's my man :)
But I agree with the assessment. One must be very careful with him. Too many times he's read sloppily