In earlier blogs I have talked of the weirdness of the English language. In this one I want to talk of the “art” of the proofreader’s role.
To recap, English is not a rule-based language, in the way a programming language is. There is a structure, a template, but there are rarely instances where English is wrong — unlike German, where a verb has to be at the end of a sentence, for example. English is a language based on conventions, not rules, and the conventions can be flouted at any time, provided it fits the context.
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To recap, English is not a rule-based language, in the way a programming language is. There is a structure, a template, but there are rarely instances where English is wrong — unlike German, where a verb has to be at the end of a sentence, for example. English is a language based on conventions, not rules, and the conventions can be flouted at any time, provided it fits the context.
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