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...surely due to the strict laws that still govern letter writing. For all the talk of "netiquette" (which delights Miss Manners), e-mail has yet to succumb to the rule of a similar code: smiley faces and other vulgarities are allowed, and even the most stringent rules of grammar are regularly relaxed...
...When it comes to the rap, I go to the artist and I say, "Make it hot." So I don't even know. I don't correct the grammar...
...Estes' fourth-grade classroom and you'll see a model of order. As students wearing crisp blue-and-white uniforms file in, Estes studies a three-ring binder to find out what's on tap for this morning, Day 111 of the school year. He begins the class with grammar exercises and then discusses a short story. All the while, Estes consults his lesson plan, which prods him with very specific instructions, from what to put on the board ("Write 'Realistic Fiction' on the chalkboard") to assignments for the class ("Invite students to determine point of view of the story...
Performers take to New Tonalist pieces like pols to an open mike, but many critics bristle at the pieces' crowd-pleasing traditionalism. An unsympathetic Dallas reviewer brushed off Liebermann's unabashedly tuneful Second as "excruciatingly conventional." Retorts the composer: "That's like criticizing a novelist because his grammar is correct...
...interviewer] turns around, gets a book off the bookshelf, asks me if I am familiar with this book, and tells me to read the paragraph [explaining that] 'hopefully' is incorrect grammar," said the student, who asked that her name be withheld...