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...concerning the use of trademarks, I'd like to set the matter straight for the benefit of all concerned. On p.18 of the March 19 issue you use the word to denote a phonographic apparatus to take dictation - but with a small "d" as a common noun instead of a capital "D" as a proper noun, denoting a trademark which it is. (It's like saying joe doakes, smoking a camel, drove off in his ford to buy some listerine.) On p.92, in an item about a spy movie, you refer to "hidden dictaphones" when you mean...
...made a promise, but, alas, failed to keep it. Under Letters (Feb. 28) you assured your readers that "pants will hereafter be taken off all ... pigeons" - a phrase which I interpreted as an assurance that adjectives, etc. would henceforth be safely attached to their logical noun or pronoun. However, by March 6, this masterpiece had been passed into print: "Sitting stiffly, but beautiful in tails . . . were Dmitri Shostakovich and his wife...
...forces," he and his fellow correspondents protested violently against not being allowed to use such a phrase as "the siege of Singapore": " 'But surely you can't deny that we are besieged.' " 'Besieged, yes,' said the military censor, 'but I object to the noun "siege".' " Such bureaucracy was seriously harmful in the more vital areas of the war. But it is Weller's view that the picture of Singapore as a decadent, liquor-swilling, escapist community is totally false. Decisions came from London, and from Lon don, too, should have come...
Japanese has no singular or plural, no gender. A noun never changes its form...
...American writing. The taste of the fastidious will always lead them to prize the sweet restraints of good English usage. But for God's sake, TIME, stop "upping." If you "up" one thing more "a thumping -%" I will up my lunch. "Up" is adverb, preposition, adjective, and noun. Even in TIME'S conscience isn't that enough...