As I wrote in my article Waiting for the Blue Fairy I started to study two books about English words and grammar.
One I still study, one I don’t.
The one I no longer read is “The Dictionary of Disagreeable English” by Robert Hartwell Fiske. It had such terrible attitude. It felt like it was written by a grumpy and bitter old man with the opinion that everybody that can’t see the difference between two words should not even write a shopping list. A writer should not make their readers feel like idiots.
I found “Grammatically correct“ by Anne Stilman a much nicer read. The examples are easy to understand and fun, the tone is kind and the writer does not tell me I’m stupid.
A writer of these kinds of books has to understand that the person reading this type of literature does so to improve and become better. The writer should encourage this initiative not scare the readers away, denying them progress.
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