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Post #32,838
by boxley
3/20/02 9:18:04 AM
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New yer a slow reader arnt you :)
As a fast reader I process line at a time using my own internal punctuation helped of course by the writer. As an exceedingly slow typist 20 periods or commas could do real damage.
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Post #32,931
by Ashton
3/20/02 8:05:47 PM
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New Well.. just so long as ya don't end every sentence with a?
Post #33,228
by static
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3/23/02 4:54:46 AM
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New Not a slow reader.
Actually I read slightly faster than the average person. But I know how to read at high speed if I have to or want to and thus know from experience that punctuation is important to achieve that. Mind you it doesn't have to be correct or complete. A full-stop to mark sentence boundaries is very often sufficient. Other marks are only really needed as additional cues when constructing sentences in order to help make complex phrases clear and thus prevent mis-parsing. Commas in particular are good at this disambiguation. :-)

If you like, think of it as the difference between a 1-pass sentence and a 2-pass sentence.

Wade.

"All around me are nothing but fakes
Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"
Post #33,230
by wharris2
3/23/02 7:34:57 AM
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New He just doesn't have a filthy mind, as you and I
"I didn't know you could drive to Europe." -- An eavesdropper, piping in when he overheard a conversation about someone who had driven to Montreal.
Post #33,305
by static
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3/24/02 8:39:44 PM
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New I was ignoring it. :-)
I bet you get deliveries in brown-paper bags, too.

Wade.

"All around me are nothing but fakes
Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"
Post #33,371
by boxley
3/25/02 12:58:46 PM
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New not since I quit drinkin 1 bag or 2?
TAM ARIS QUAM ARMIPOTENS
     ITS FUCKING SPRING BREAK IN CLEARWATER!!!! - (boxley) - (28) - March 6, 2002, 12:39:58 PM EST
         Boo freakin' hoo -NT - (drewk) - March 6, 2002, 12:51:06 PM EST
         You're a dirty old man, aincha? -NT - (ben_tilly) - March 6, 2002, 12:55:20 PM EST
         Ah quit yer bitchin... - (bepatient) - March 6, 2002, 01:38:02 PM EST
         Well I would too! - (static) - (8) - March 7, 2002, 10:08:14 PM EST
             (F-32) \ufffd 5/9 ya can do in head___________:-\ufffd -NT - (Ashton) - (5) - March 8, 2002, 02:31:51 AM EST
                 Re: (F-32) \ufffd 5/9 ya can do in head___________:-\ufffd - (a6l6e6x) - (4) - March 8, 2002, 03:58:33 PM EST
                     Nah. Can't do that. - (static) - (3) - March 9, 2002, 04:09:07 AM EST
                         But you can remember which SP breaks - (Ashton) - (2) - March 9, 2002, 04:34:09 PM EST
                             Er, no. Don't know that either. - (static) - (1) - March 10, 2002, 06:46:35 PM EST
                                 Bet there are many who envy your (even) having that choice.. -NT - (Ashton) - March 11, 2002, 03:32:33 AM EST
             14C? Sounds like an (unusually, for March) balmy spring day! -NT - (CRConrad) - (1) - March 8, 2002, 07:08:32 AM EST
                 people around here put on longjohns under 70F -NT - (boxley) - March 8, 2002, 08:55:45 AM EST
         This weekend should be better -NT - (Simon_Jester) - March 8, 2002, 12:08:38 PM EST
         FINAL REPORT!!!!! - (boxley) - (14) - March 11, 2002, 10:01:05 AM EST
             80F = 26C. - (static) - (13) - March 11, 2002, 10:34:22 PM EST
                 Not his fault... - (hnick) - (2) - March 12, 2002, 01:36:22 PM EST
                     Well.. he doesn't drink enough water too, - (Ashton) - (1) - March 13, 2002, 08:28:44 PM EST
                         throbbing sunburn? -NT - (boxley) - March 14, 2002, 08:52:53 AM EST
                 always whining about form around here not cuntent -NT - (boxley) - (9) - March 14, 2002, 08:54:14 AM EST
                     Form vs content. - (static) - (8) - March 20, 2002, 12:06:20 AM EST
                         ....esrow eb dluoc tI -NT - (Ashton) - (1) - March 20, 2002, 12:59:38 AM EST
                             couldnt it no -NT - (boxley) - March 20, 2002, 09:18:50 AM EST
                         yer a slow reader arnt you :) - (boxley) - (5) - March 20, 2002, 09:18:04 AM EST
                             Well.. just so long as ya don't end every sentence with a? -NT - (Ashton) - March 20, 2002, 08:05:47 PM EST
                             Not a slow reader. - (static) - March 23, 2002, 04:54:46 AM EST
                             He just doesn't have a filthy mind, as you and I -NT - (wharris2) - (2) - March 23, 2002, 07:34:57 AM EST
                                 I was ignoring it. :-) - (static) - (1) - March 24, 2002, 08:39:44 PM EST
                                     not since I quit drinkin 1 bag or 2? -NT - (boxley) - March 25, 2002, 12:58:46 PM EST

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