8FOLD: Journey Into # 13: The Five Graph Trap!

Andrew Perron pwerdna at gmail.com
Sat Jul 24 15:33:50 PDT 2010


On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:00:10 +0000 (UTC), Tom Russell wrote:

> But I put a lot of time, thought, and care in my writing.  And so
> being accused, even inadvertently, of carelessness-- which is
> essentially what a run-on sentence is emblematic of, along with a base
> ignorance of the workings of the written English language-- is
> something I'm going to bristle at when I think the accusation is
> unfounded.

I've gotta agree here, and I wish more people knew these distinctions.  The
rule Tom broke (if rule he did break) was one of style, not of grammar.

Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, or syntax.


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