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Date Posted: 15:09:25 May 25 2003, Sunday
Author: Albert
Subject: Re: ONE ACTS
In reply to: Maryna 's message, "Re: ONE ACTS" on 08:59:08 May 25 2003, Sunday

>>Damn, that is one hell of a runon. You have heard of
>>this thing called punctuation, yes?
>
>I believe you mean "run-on", you grammar nazi!

The absence of a single hyphen is quite innocuous compared to Yolanda's butchery. It's not so much that I'm a grammar nazi as it is I'm a communications nazi. I had to read Yolanda's 'sentence' three or four times before I actually understood what she was saying. Just adding a few commas and periods would have made it instantly accessible.

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[> [> [> [> Re: ONE ACTS -- Factitious, 18:43:47 May 25 2003, Sunday

>The ebsence ef e sengle hephen es qeete enneceees
>cempered te Yelende's betchere. Et's net se mech thet
>E'm e gremmer neze es et es E'm e cemmeneceteens neze.
>E hed te reed Yelende's 'sentence' three er feer temes
>befere E ecteelle endersteed whet she wes seyeng. Jest
>eddeng e few cemmes end pereeds weeld heve mede et
>enstently eccesseble.

I understood it on a first reading. Punctuation provides helpful information, but it is a testament to the fortunate redundancies of natural language that writing can often be understood without it. As a somewhat different example, I have replaced all the vowels in your previous reply with 'e'.


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[> [> [> [> [> Re: ONE ACTS -- Albert, 20:13:04 May 25 2003, Sunday

>I understood it on a first reading. Punctuation
>provides helpful information, but it is a testament to
>the fortunate redundancies of natural language that
>writing can often be understood without it. As a
>somewhat different example, I have replaced all the
>vowels in your previous reply with 'e'.

Hm, it's a bad example because I already know what It says. Care to furnish me with another?


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[> [> [> [> [> [> Re: ONE ACTS -- Factitious, 00:56:39 May 26 2003, Monday

>>I understood it on a first reading. Punctuation
>>provides helpful information, but it is a testament to
>>the fortunate redundancies of natural language that
>>writing can often be understood without it. As a
>>somewhat different example, I have replaced all the
>>vowels in your previous reply with 'e'.
>
>Hm, it's a bad example because I already know what It
>says. Care to furnish me with another?

No.


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