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"What I know about language", says Wallraff, "derives chiefly from my having edited, line by line and word by word, other people's writing over the past two decades". In Word Court, Wallraff addresses changes in the language, questions of grammar, issues concerning specific words and phrases and a bunch of other linguistic concerns impossible to catergorise. She recommends rewriting in order to avoid problems ("recast, recast"), treading carefully when you don't want controversial word use to obscure your point, and forgiving significant others "for any lapse of grammar committed in a bathrobe, before the coffee is ready". This book is delicious. And I'll bet your first-edition Fowler that Wallraff even introduces a few issues you may never have considered (perhaps the exceptional which, "picnic's grandmother" constructions, or those rare instances in which a sentence's two grammatically independent clauses should not--I repeat not--be separated by a comma). --Jane Steinberg
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