Booking Through Thursday - Manual Labour
by Athena ~ May 8th, 2008. Filed under: Books.Writing guides, grammar books, punctuation how-tos . . . do you read them? Not read them? How many writing books, grammar books, dictionaries–if any–do you have in your library? - BTT
I don’t “read” them per se. I do have a couple, and I like a good reference book as the next bibliophile. I have two English dictionaries, a couple of English other language dictionaries, and one purely French dictionary. I use the computer and online dictionaries more. I also have one grammar book, and I would really like to get a copy of the Elements of Style. I like owning grammar books rather than using them though. I listen to the Grammar Girl podcast which says a lot about me, but I am horrible at grammar and syntax. When I learn languages, writing and proper oral communication is the hardest for me to learn while I learn quickly through comprehension.
Bit late today since I’m busy on thursdays now. I haven’t had time to read this week. The weekend can’t come fast enough.
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May 8th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Hmm. I forgot to list the language dictionaries I have - Spanish, French, and Latin, I think.
Should I have listed the demonology and vampire reference books I have?
Naw, that would’ve taken too long.
cjh
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May 8th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
I do have a Sankrit-English-Hindi dictionary and used to have a Hindi-English one too.
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