Thank Goodness

tyro tortoise tyrotortoise at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 10 12:16:55 CST 2002


--- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:
> >
> > For example, the paragraph at the top of page 12
> > starts off talking about class and racial
> differences
> > and ends with an apology for the offensive
> language in
> > one of the stories. That's bad writing.
> >
> 
> The paragraph in question already starts on 11.23,
> is about careless speech
> and ends with an honestly meant apology for that.
> Why is this bad writing,
> what's your problem with it?

My mistake. The paragraph starts 11.23 as you say. 
Thanks for the correction.  Still, it's a poorly
constructed paragraph. The sentence that beigins at
12.1 takes up the issue we have been discussing
(race/power). What is that sentence doing in this
paragraph? Why does he insert theoretical speculation
about race and power in this paragraph? 


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