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   TID: FastEcho 1.46.1 1530   
   Alexander Koryagin to Anton Shepelev:   
      
   AS>> Alexander quoted /Harry Potter/:   
   AK>>> What was the good of magicking himself out of his   
   AK>>> room if Hogwarts would expel him for doing it?   
   AS>> I think literary English requires "doing so"   
   AS>> instead of "doing it".   
   AK> IMHO you are sometimes too strict about English.   
      
   I try to learn and use correct English, and don't agree   
   that a thing can be too good, too correct, too perfect.   
   Things are usually insufficiently so, whence my   
   universal formula:   The better the better.   
      
   AK> It was Rowling after all, not me.   
      
   Yes, I know that she wrote /Harry Potter/, not you,   
   and was commening on Mrz. Rowling's English. I am not   
   accusing you of writing /doing it/ instead of /doing so/,   
   but I am reproving you for reading sub-par English,   
   and I dare say sub-par literature. If you don't start   
   with the greatest classics, you will never acquire   
   good taste (and arguing about taste is mostly useless :-)   
      
   AK> And we should remember immortal Bart Simpson's   
   AK> saying "I didn't do it!" ;-)   
      
   I for one abhor that animation, together with South Park   
   et al, because (to me) their characters are made   
   intentionally ugly -- to appeal to teenagers strugging   
   through puberty's hormonal explosions, for lack of   
   healthier emotional vents and more constructive energy   
   channels.   
      
   --- FastEcho/2 1.46.1 Revival   
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