About the Author
I started as a poet. I discovered that I had no “spark,” though I was good enough at the mechanics. So I became a teacher. Having gotten two degrees in English literature while trying to be a poet, I naturally taught English. Starting in 1986, I also worked part-time writing software manuals.
As it happened, I had taken all the linguistics courses the university offered, purely because I enjoy concepts such as transformational grammar and morphology. When I was looking at code over a developer's shoulder, I said, “I see structure and syntax here. Tell me how it works.” Phil Schlump was smart enough to not try to explain how ...
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