On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 6:29 PM, tedd <tedd.sperling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 1:59 PM -0400 7/25/08, Daniel Brown wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:56 PM, tedd <tedd.sperling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> At 8:10 PM +0100 7/24/08, Richard Heyes wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > (and anal retentive) when you code :)
>>>>
>>>> I am; the problem is no one lives up to my standards... :-)
>>>
>>> Anyone else find the two sentences above used together disturbing?
>>> Something
>>> about "anal" and "up" that doesn't sound good. :-)
>>
>> This coming from a guy who, two messages prior, started a sentence
>> with "but."
>
> But, there's nothing wrong with starting a sentence with but.
>
> There, I even started AND ended with one.
Correct, as I said, in "Reader's Digest" English. In proper
grammar, it's tantamount to ending a sentence with a preposition[1].
However, even in Reader's Digest English (RDE[TM]), heading a word
with "but" is acceptable.... but following it immediately with a comma
is not[2].
1: Hence the name, "pre-position" --- positioned before.
2: http://www.michbar.org/journal/pdf/pdf4article628.pdf
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