The Elephants of Style

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1、THEELEPHANTSofSTYLEATrunkloadofTipsontheBigIssuesandGrayAreasofContemporaryAmericanEnglishBillWalshauthorofLapsingIntoaCommaFormymom,MollyChilinski,whodidn’traisenodummiesThispageintentionallyleftblank.Formoreinformationaboutthistitle,clickhere.ContentsAck

2、nowledgmentsixIntroductionxiWhatWeTalkAboutWhenWeTalkAboutStyleELEPHANTNO.1RememberThatYou’reNotUsingaTypewriter1StyleBeginsWithFormandFormatAlso,RememberThatYou’reintheUnitedStatesELEPHANTNO.2LettersoftheLaw9CommonMisstepsinSpellingELEPHANTNO.3What’sUp?17

3、AllAboutCapitalizationEverything’sGenericWhat’sinanAME?vviContentsELEPHANTNO.4WhattoAbbrev.?43TheShortandShorterofTruncations,AcronymsandInitialismsInitialReactionsandSecondThoughts(IRAST)ELEPHANTNO.5WhichOneIsRightAgain?51AQuickReviewofProblemPairs(andTri

4、osand...)ELEPHANTNO.6LiesYourEnglishTeacherToldYou61TheBigMythsofEnglishUsageELEPHANTNO.7SomeGrayAreas71ProceedWithCautionELEPHANTNO.8Agreed?81MakingSurethePartsofSpeechGetAlongELEPHANTNO.9CoverYourS93PossessivesandPluralsELEPHANTNO.10ANumberofProblems107C

5、ountingon100PercentCorrectnessContentsviiELEPHANTNO.11TheAdventuresofCurlyandStitch125TheComma,theHyphen,theHeadachesELEPHANTNO.12Flair!Elan!Panache!135AFewPotshotsAboutStyle-With-a-Capital-SColorsArePretty,butHowAboutJustGivingIttoMeinBlackandWhite?WhatIs

6、,Is:Can’tArgueWithThatTheSpinWins:GreatMomentsinObfuscationMadamChairmanandThatFriggin’Masseuse:TakingLinguisticEvolutionLikea“-man”ELEPHANTNO.13Writers,Typists,ThievesandLiars157PlagiarismandItsKinELEPHANTNO.14WritingandRewriting163AWriter-Turned-EditorWr

7、itesAboutEditingandBeingEditedFromFromtoTo:Everything’sRangingSnarkySpecificityLiteralandConservative:GeorgeWashingtonWasn’tReallyOurFatherTheCurmudgeon’sStylebook(Continued)177AWebFAQBibliography225Index227Thispageintentionallyleftblank.AcknowledgmentsItwo

8、uldn’tbeincorrecttocallthisbookaone-maneffort.Butthenthereareallthewomenwhodeservecredit:myagent,ShereeBykofsky,andherassociates,JanetRosenandMeganBuckley;myeditoratMcGraw-Hill,JudithMcCarthy;myWashingtonPost