"The Elements of Style". Prescriptive. Precise. Buy it for the elegant introduction by E B White. Read the original text online.
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I like it. Elegant, subtle, concise.
h/t powers of four
NOOOOOOOO.
This is an awful, awful book. Even they don't follow their own prescription.
Please - before you buy this thing, or read it, or even consider taking it to heart, run over to Language Log and read what actual linguists think about it.
Thanks. It has been a while since I read LL. Some of the LL posts I just read mentioning Strunk are ... too zealous for my liking, shall we say?
'actual' linguists? :-)
Oh dear god, somebody make the bad book go away