[lbo-talk] Prose Style -- A Sample for Discussion

[Tayssir John Gabbour]

On 1/1/07, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> Tayssir John Gabbour wrote:
> > The author goes on:
> >
> > "But suppose that it is a DE-bunker rather than a 'Bunker', [clip]
>
> Ah, You know the source.

I was curious enough about the "authority of origins" part to Google
the source.... Curious monkey I am, these things can really drive me
bananas.


> But the writer speaks of "grammar and rhetoric" rather than "syntax and
> semantics." Do you think these two phrases are interchangeable?

I thought they were in this one context. But I certainly could be
wrong... "Syntax and semantics" are just the words I know for these
concepts, because of my day job.

Tayssir