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Alexander Koryagin to Anton Shepelev:

AS>> Alexander quoted /Harry Potter/:
AK>>> What was the good of magicking himself out of his
AK>>> room if Hogwarts would expel him for doing it?
AS>> I think literary English requires "doing so"
AS>> instead of "doing it".
AK> IMHO you are sometimes too strict about English.

I try to learn and use correct English, and don't agree
that a thing can be too good, too correct, too perfect.
Things are usually insufficiently so, whence my
universal formula:   The better the better.

AK> It was Rowling after all, not me.

Yes, I know that she wrote /Harry Potter/, not you,
and was commening on Mrz. Rowling's English. I am not
accusing you of writing /doing it/ instead of /doing so/,
but I am reproving you for reading sub-par English,
and I dare say sub-par literature. If you don't start
with the greatest classics, you will never acquire
good taste (and arguing about taste is mostly useless :-)

AK> And we should remember immortal Bart Simpson's
AK> saying "I didn't do it!" ;-)

I for one abhor that animation, together with South Park
et al, because (to me) their characters are made
intentionally ugly -- to appeal to teenagers strugging
through puberty's hormonal explosions, for lack of
healthier emotional vents and more constructive energy
channels.

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