Note: I haven't done a "guest blogging" post for years. I used to do them whenever I went out of town. I'm now back from my epic trip to Greece (if not entirely over my epic case of 10-time-zone jet lag.) But this topic just knocks for a guest-post opportunity. So better late than never.
University of Pennsylvania linguistics professor Mark Liberman, no fan of the highly and often arbitrarily-prescriptive Elements of Style dryly notes
The most recent xkcd offers some sound editorial guidance:
The validity of the strip's title string ("The best thing about Strunk/White fanfiction is that it's virtually guaranteed to be well written") is less clear, for reasons that Geoff Pullum has explained at length in various places, for example here.
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I have not been able to find any non-fictional instances of Strunk/White fan fiction, but we can hope that in the future, references to these names will more often be separated by a slash than by an ampersand. ]
Source: Language Log
Evidently there are entire websites (I think they're called "kink meme" sites) where slash fans who are readers can request character and activity pairings and other slash fans who are writers will attempt to fulfill the request. I'm almost completely clueless about slash but I think Liberman could request Strunk/White slash fiction here.
Guest Blogger Opportunity: Feel free to write your own Strunk/White fiction either here in comments or on your own blog.
Request: If you know of other better Kink Meme sites (where one could best request Strink/White stories) let me know in comments and I'll promote them to the main post.
Final request: If you already know of Strunk/White slash, whether you've written it or just read it, you can of course links to that in comments as well.
Update from comments:
- I cited asylums.insanejournal.com/kinkmemes
- Argyle cites http://kinkmemes.livejournal.com/
- Thanks to Argyle again, Livejournal comes through with Strunk/White slash. Bonus points! Their safe-word is "Oxford comma!"
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Speaking as an enthusiastic
Submitted by Argyle (not verified) on Mon, 2011-07-11 09:49.Speaking as an enthusiastic (when I have the free time, anyway) kinkmeme participant from both the reading and writing side, you'd probably do better on Livejournal, which has a much higher membership (and a lot more traffic) than Insanejournal. LJ: it's where the kink is, in terms of fanfic, I kid you not . . . ;)
http://kinkmemes.livejournal.com/
Although even *that* nonspecific kinkmeme page isn't very active -- generally kinkmemes are pretty fandom-specific . . .
(Yes, I know: A Life: Get One.) ;)
Ah, I knew LJ would come
Submitted by Argyle (not verified) on Mon, 2011-07-11 17:33.Ah, I knew LJ would come through -- just a snippet, but relevant, and funny:
http://kindkit.livejournal.com/557351.html
:)