http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001633.html Writers are often told to Show, Not Tell, and while this is not universally the best of advice -- it can lead to a piling up of flat details that the reader has to struggle to interpret individually and as... en-us http://mattweiner.net/blog/archives/000396.html At Language Log, Arnold Zwicky catches one David Blaustein describing an author (Keith Banner) as awash in the "curious grammar" of Ohio when all Banner is doing is using working-class and colloquial speech that's not particularly regional at all. Zwic...