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

Scott Eiler seiler at eilertech.com
Sat Jul 24 18:15:31 PDT 2010


On Jul 24, 3:33 pm, Andrew Perron <pwer... at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Okay, I'm sorry I called it a run-on.  Wikipedia has confirmed, you
just now taught me what high school grammar class didn't.  8{C>


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