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Re: FBI says OBL has nothing to do with 911[W:152]
If this is what you were taught in US schools then I can understand why you are so clueless about issues of the English language. What grade are you in now? US students are taught many many fictions about the English language.
Here are some synonyms for 'fable'. I just put in the highly pertinent ones so as not to overwhelm you.
Synonyms for fable
noun - fantasy, story
fantasy, fiction, legend, myth, bunk, crock, fabrication, falsehood, fib, figment, hogwash, invention, lie, untruth, whopper, fairy tale, fish story, old chestnut, old saw, one for the birds, tall story, tall tale
Fable Synonyms, Fable Antonyms | Thesaurus.com
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Those work together.... they are not alone.
Whoa, that's heavy dude! You must be like a English expert!
A falsehood that is a ficti... you know what? Why bother. :lol:
Indeed, why bother? You are, like mike, afraid that if you do try to explain your fable about fable, you will quickly be afflicted with foot in mouth disease.
Dude... this is taught to children... and they understand.
If this is what you were taught in US schools then I can understand why you are so clueless about issues of the English language. What grade are you in now? US students are taught many many fictions about the English language.
Here are some synonyms for 'fable'. I just put in the highly pertinent ones so as not to overwhelm you.
Synonyms for fable
noun - fantasy, story
fantasy, fiction, legend, myth, bunk, crock, fabrication, falsehood, fib, figment, hogwash, invention, lie, untruth, whopper, fairy tale, fish story, old chestnut, old saw, one for the birds, tall story, tall tale
Fable Synonyms, Fable Antonyms | Thesaurus.com
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50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice
By GEOFFREY K. PULLUM
April 16 is the 50th anniversary of the publication of a little book that is loved and admired throughout American
academe. Celebrations, readings, and toasts are being held, and a commemorative edition has been released.
I won't be celebrating.
The Elements of Style does not deserve the enormous esteem in which it is held by American college graduates.
Its advice ranges from limp platitudes to inconsistent nonsense. Its enormous influence has not improved
American students' grasp of English grammar; it has significantly degraded it.
The authors won't be hurt by these critical remarks. They are long dead. William Strunk was a professor of English
at Cornell about a hundred years ago, and E.B. White, later the much-admired author of Charlotte's Web, took
English with him in 1919, purchasing as a required text the first edition, which Strunk had published privately. After
Strunk's death, White published a New Yorker article reminiscing about him and was asked by Macmillan to revise
and expand Elements for commercial publication. It took off like a rocket (in 1959) and has sold millions.
This was most unfortunate for the field of English grammar, because both authors were grammatical incompetents.
Strunk had very little analytical understanding of syntax, White even less ... .
http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/50years.pdf