(Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, $10.95). The author of "Grammatical Man" writes about neural networks, a new kind of computer whose architecture resembles that of the brain.
"When I composed the passage in question," the justice informs me, "I pondered for some time whether I should be perfectly grammatical and write 'I have nothing against homosexuals', or any other group's, promoting their agenda,' etc.
It is quoted in the first grammatical treatise, written about 1140.
"Omnity makes mathematical equations that describe statistical patterns of rare words in discrete documents, without regard to work proximity, and without regard to grammar or grammatical content," wrote Sager.
Put aside the imprecise, non-grammatical writing.
I would argue that just as tone units allow for multiple information units in a spoken grammatical clause, so do punctuation marks allow for multiple units of information in the written grammatical clause.
Getting into grammatical detail, he wrote: "It is a self-contained redundancy.
Grammatical habits in written English reveal linguistic features of non-native speakers' languages.
Those who could run a filing or accounting system, using nothing but paper, or write grammatical, properly spelled English on a manual typewriter, became the new technological elite.
If I remember rightly, the experimental novelist BS Johnson (maternally but not physically disabled) who committed suicide in 1973, made use of and commented on this "all milk" grammatical oddity when writing about his mother.
