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    Battle Hymn of the Purist
    Battle Hymn of the Purist
    Battle Hymn of the Purist
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    Battle Hymn of the Purist

    By Alfred D. Byrd

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    English is drowning in a sea of bobbles, but some of us are willing to take up arms on the noble tongue's behalf. Bloated sentences, pointless paragraphs, grammatical solecisms of the worst sort -- these are our enemies in our struggle for concision, clarity, and content. If a thing that's worth saying is worth saying well, why do so many say things badly, yet think that they're saying them well? Maybe, you -- the proud, the few, the purists -- can convince them of the error of their ways. At least, you can be right while you're losing the fight. If you're up to it, this book describes the grammatical battlefield and equips you with weapons to keep you fighting on it. As the hordes of mediocracy assail you with windiness, irrelevancy, and pomposity, you can smite them with words that glitter like diamonds against their dullness. Even if those hordes overwhelm you, what you learn hear may help you utter deathless -- and, more importantly, grammatically correct -- last words that will tell a forgetful world, "English was a thing of beauty."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlfred D. Byrd
    Release dateApr 28, 2016
    ISBN9781310798382
    Battle Hymn of the Purist
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    Alfred D. Byrd

    I'm a graduate of Hazel Park High School, Hazel Park MI, and I've earned a B. S. in Medical Technology at Michigan State University and an M. S. in Microbiology at the University of Kentucky.My interests are Christian theology and history, Civil War history, science fiction, and fantasy. I've published a number of works, in prose or in epic verse, on these subjects.A number of my works are available from Amazon and other major on-line book distributors. I've also sold four short stories or novellas to science fiction or fantasy anthologies.

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