Mastodawn

For #citations in lit reviews, #APA and #ASA styles both suggest past #tense whereas #Chicagostyle suggests present. Despite this, I can't recall ever seeing past tense used in any #academic #articles or #books, not even in the ASA's flagship #journal, #American #Sociological Review. Even when a standard is explicitly codified, it appears that those doing the codifying don't strictly adhere to it but are not criticized for these oversights.

#writing #research #science #English #StandardEnglish

🥥 Tucker Carlson's Nuts 🥥Aug 7, 2023

🥥 #TuckerCarlsonNuts' Klassroom of Grammar Klassics:
Did you know that in #StandardEnglish #DoubleNegatives in a sentence cancel each other out?
Use them to either signal your disorganized thinking, or to bypass people's ability to determine what you really want to say.
Example: "Not for nothing did Trump misunderstand that he hadn't not won the 2020 election. He couldn't not believe that it had been stolen from him. 🥥

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bs2 Feb 22, 2023

> From 1942 to 1944, working as a colleague of #WilliamEmpson's, he produced a series of broadcasts to India written in #BasicEnglish, trying to use its programmed simplicity, as a Tribune article put it,

'as a sort of corrective to the oratory of statesmen and publicists.'

Only during the last year of the war did he write 'Politics and the #EnglishLanguage,' insisting that the defense of English language has nothing to do with the setting up of a #StandardEnglish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_english#cite_note-17