Is a subscription to the Chicago Manual of Style necessary?

[Metlakatla]

Originally Posted by MinivanDriver

Just buy it. It's available in hardback.

Also, Dreyer's English is both really good and really funny at the same time.

One of my favorites. Grammar for a Full Life isn't bad, either.

[Tantalust]

Originally Posted by 2x3x29x41

Elements runs 43 pages, while Chicago runs 1100+.

I seem to remember the great EoS constantly chided the writer to keep it brief, which Strunk and White . . . went ahead and did.

[2x3x29x41]

Originally Posted by 2x3x29x41

Elements runs 43 pages, while Chicago runs 1100+.

Originally Posted by Tantalust

I seem to remember the great EoS constantly chided the writer to keep it brief, which Strunk and White . . . went ahead and did.

"Hey, professor, about this syllabus. Dickens? Tolstoy? A real writer keeps it short, like that Superman comic I bought yesterday!".

Every competent writer knows that there is a place for expounding on a point as often as there is a place for being concise.

[Tantalust]

And we could shave your post to make it a bit easier to read.

[rabbit33]

Thoreau wrote "Simplify, simplify, simplify".

It was noted, by either Paul Fussell or Florence King, that if he'd been serious he'd have omitted the last two.

Someone else has pointed out that the the first, third and fourth words of the phrase "Equal Justice Under Law" are superfluous.

Twain wrote "Eschew surplusage" - but he did so in a 4700 word essay on "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses".