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Revision: 8706 http://phpwiki.svn.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/?rev=8706&view=rev Author: vargenau Date: 2012-12-29 20:13:29 +0000 (Sat, 29 Dec 2012) Log Message: ----------- Use smart quotes Modified Paths: -------------- trunk/pgsrc/Help%2FGoodStyle Modified: trunk/pgsrc/Help%2FGoodStyle =================================================================== --- trunk/pgsrc/Help%2FGoodStyle 2012-12-29 19:58:05 UTC (rev 8705) +++ trunk/pgsrc/Help%2FGoodStyle 2012-12-29 20:13:29 UTC (rev 8706) @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:46:13 +0000 +Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2012 13:46:13 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Produced by PhpWiki 1.4.0) Content-Type: application/x-phpwiki; pagename=Help%2FGoodStyle; @@ -7,16 +7,16 @@ charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary -"Young writers often suppose that style is a garnish for the meat of +“Young writers often suppose that style is a garnish for the meat of prose, a sauce by which a dull dish is made palatable. Style has no such separate entity; it is nondetachable, unfilterable. The beginner should approach style warily, realizing that it is himself he is approaching, no other; and he should begin by turning resolutely away from all devices that are popularly believed to indicate style--all mannerisms, tricks, adornments. The approach to style is by way of -plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity." +plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.” ---Strunk and White, "The Elements of Style" +--Strunk and White, “The Elements of Style” //And thus an American textbook, typical required reading for 10th-grade English students, unknowingly extols some virtues of This was sent by the SourceForge.net collaborative development platform, the world's largest Open Source development site. |