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Ylva Hernlund <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 11 Jun 2000 22:56:22 -0700
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As the joke goes:
An English professor wrote the words:  "Woman without her man is
nothing" on the blackboard and directed the students to punctuate it.
The men wrote:
"Woman, without her man, is nothing."
The women wrote:
"Woman!  Without her, man is nothing."

Ylva

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Gai, M wrote:

> Mustapha,
> Yes, I think you can write as much as you want provided you obey the
> punctuation rules. The caution is to have the punctuations in their right
> correct place. However writers are better understood with shorter and simpler
> sentences than with longer and clumsy ones.
>
> I would support writing short sentences where necessary.
>
> Gai
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