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The Grammar Book for Programmers, Designers, & Bloggers

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There are a few missing commas in the bullet points, as well as some unnecessary commas in other locations. That does not instill confidence in a book that promises to teach grammar.

The author likes mixing hyphens, semi-colons and commas together interchangeably. How unfortunate.

That is precisely the problem with grammar: some people like to be grammar police and they don't know the proper rules because they were taught incorrectly, or they simply disagree because of their interpretation. I am guessing you simply have a different interpretation of the rules.

I don't see the grammatical mistakes you are referring to.

Well, if you read closely, this is what they said:

> Many grammar books contradict one another, and some even recommend absurd and irrelevant usage and rules from bygone days.

Well, one can say their rules contradict one another.

I actually took a grammar class last spring and it was really good. I still have grammatical errors but hey - no one is perfect.

I think you could have waited until the book was actually available in some form (either e-book or paperback) before posting it to HN.

Probably just another product/market fit testing landing page. The product won't be created unless N number of subscribers sign up for the updates :)

Sounds promising, though a little short on the details of what will actually be in the book.

Looking forward to it.

On a related note, here is a nice course from Stanford about scientific/technical writing: http://online.stanford.edu/course/writing-in-the-sciences I picked up quite a few things from there. (If you are pressed for time, you can watch the lectures at 1.3x speedup).

I'm building Quill, a web app that provides interactive grammar lessons. We are an open source/open content nonprofit organization, and we are working with a team of a half dozen volunteers. We are currently developing collaborative writing exercises, and if you're interested in building interactive education please reach out to me at peter at quill dot org.

http://www.quill.org

This is really interesting, I look forward to seeing how this is used.

Thanks! We've got some big plans in the works. Let me know if you'd like to hear more.

"most-respected grammar authorities"

Super awkward there.

Why would some these varied groups of people need a grammar book specifically for them?

I can sort of see why, say, a visually-oriented person may do better with a tailored book over a standard textbook, but programmers, designers, and bloggers seems like a wide set of people.

Cool idea. I look forward to checking it out.

This is very helpful looking forward to it.

So is this American English or British English?

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