Literary style manual beef! "Strunk and White are mummies of the Lost Generation, bound in typewriter ribbon and pickled with scotch…”
A cheeky and thoughtful survey of the field and review of Farnsworth’s new manual: themillions.com/2020/08/humble (via )
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I figured Pinker’s book was now the one to beat, but it wasn’t considered in the survey.
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Yes, I was bummed to see that.
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I've spent the day reading Clear and Simple as the Truth, and it's wonderful! It makes a useful distinction between "style" and "a style", which allows it to focus on deeper conceptual decisions rather than on surface features like sentence length.
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I can see now why Pinker devoted an entire chapter to summarizing it in The Sense of Style.