What is style and how can it be cultivated? What is your writing style and how is it unique? Is it something that can be worked at, or does it develop naturally with more reading and experience?
I call my style "Post-modern Tyrannosaurus Rex" because it reads very heady, but doesn't actually hold any ideas.
wow op posting a page from an undergrad intro to computational linguistics textbook makes u totally not look like a pseud!
>>9498172
compling and all the other spawn of generative grammar are pseudoscience
read quine
>Syntax is to linguistics what literary theory is to literature.
Discuss.
>>9499744
>Generative grammar is science
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I identify an author that I like, then I pick his best Ĺ“uvre and copy it exactly into my leather notepad/belt accessory. I feel this gives my writing some type of soul.
>>9499759
if you're attempting to imply that's an outrageous claim then you clearly don't know what generative grammar is.
>>9499754
vehemently disagree
>>9499754
a cancer? yeah i can get on board with that