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Post #104,678
by dmarker
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6/3/03 6:55:06 PM
6/3/03 6:59:14 PM
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New That is certainly my experience.
Had an intermittent education in England (1st foray was age 10, last age 15). And I can clearly recall the most recent 'English' classes at grammar school in Surrey (Sth West of London), where we were emphatically told not to start a sentence with 'but'.

But, times change :-)

Cheers

Doug
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Post #104,681
by jb4
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6/3/03 7:10:43 PM
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New **giggle**
And, if you don't do it too often, you can even get away with starting a sentence with "and"!
jb4
"We continue to live in a world where all our know-how is locked into binary files in an unknown format. If our documents are our corporate memory, Microsoft still has us all condemned to Alzheimer's."
Simon Phipps, SUN Microsystems
     Question for the language pedants out there... - (hnick) - (19) - June 3, 2003, 05:19:05 PM EDT
         That's a close call - (drewk) - (1) - June 3, 2003, 05:29:49 PM EDT
             That one also drives me up a wall... -NT - (hnick) - June 3, 2003, 05:45:23 PM EDT
         This is a bogus "rule" - (Silverlock) - (10) - June 3, 2003, 05:35:56 PM EDT
             Good, support for what I plan to keep doing anyway ;) -NT - (drewk) - June 3, 2003, 05:39:31 PM EDT
             Nice link - (hnick) - (6) - June 3, 2003, 05:49:14 PM EDT
                 18th century in Virginia? - (cwbrenn) - (5) - June 3, 2003, 06:25:28 PM EDT
                     No. - (pwhysall) - (4) - June 3, 2003, 06:27:06 PM EDT
                         Fight! - (cwbrenn) - June 3, 2003, 07:03:38 PM EDT
                         In the mountains of the carolines and virginia - (boxley) - June 3, 2003, 08:34:23 PM EDT
                         Oh, come on... - (Yendor) - (1) - June 3, 2003, 08:49:37 PM EDT
                             I'm not from these parts. - (pwhysall) - June 4, 2003, 02:25:34 AM EDT
             That is certainly my experience. - (dmarker) - (1) - June 3, 2003, 06:59:14 PM EDT
                 **giggle** - (jb4) - June 3, 2003, 07:10:43 PM EDT
         Conversational - recitation - (deSitter) - June 3, 2003, 09:41:42 PM EDT
         What about Pl's? - (deSitter) - June 3, 2003, 09:44:44 PM EDT
         That's the difficulty.. illustrated with such as, - (Ashton) - (1) - June 3, 2003, 10:49:20 PM EDT
             That's the thing about breaking rules - (drewk) - June 4, 2003, 08:04:07 AM EDT
         Syntax error - (mhuber) - (1) - June 4, 2003, 07:25:42 AM EDT
             And that is why computers cannot parse arbitrary English. -NT - (static) - June 4, 2003, 08:04:15 AM EDT

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