This week’s One From The Vault is a rant on arbitrary and incorrect “rules” of English insisted upon by some teachers, editors and pedants:
There is no excuse for thinking that you can’t start a sentence with “There is.” And I should add that I think it is fine to start a sentence with “and.” But not just and, even but.
Here’s the link
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I think that silver-light is the best framework provided by Microsoft for the multimedia purpose. Here it is explained very well http://forums.techarena.in/guides-tutorials/1356640.htm
Of course the phrase “He Dispersed” (from the paper by Pullum that your referenced), can
in fact make sense – at lease if he was hit by a disintegrator beam
Other than that, this is a good “classic”.
FWIW: I was one of the Tech Editors for some editions of “Teach yourself C++ in 21 days”. Fortunately, I merely had to make sure the code was ISO compliant and not deal with the written words…..