Norm, My father was a high school English teacher. I got 'C's and 'B's in all 4 years of high school English. I have no idea of the proper use of the colon or the semicolon.
I seem to remember something about the colon being proper when it precedes a list of things, but not if the list contains proper complete sentences. I bet I'm wrong though... Eric Thompson S/V Procrastinator South San Francisco [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Norm of Bandersnatch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 1:09 PM Subject: [Liveaboard] Bandwidth > > > > While we are on the thread of bandwidth, I would like to remind everyone > to > trim your outgoing messages down to just the pertinent portions to remind > people what you are replying to. > > When you don't there can often accumulate a large tail of redundant trash > especially when there are replies to replies to replies. Say what you > will, just don't send any useless junk. > > As Professor Strunk ('Elements of Style' by Strunk and White [as in E B > White]) was fond of saying: "Omit useless words." > > As in the personal ad: "Minimalist seeks woman." > > And while I'm on the soap box: for the sake of your readers, please read > your message out loud and make grammar corrections, run a spell checker > over the text before hitting the send button, and learn to use the colon > an > semicolon. Doing these things help the message flow into the mind easier > making your message more powerful. > > Norm > S/V Bandersnatch > Lying Julington Creek > 30 07.695N 081 38.484W > > >> VALUABLE BAND WIDTH THAT DRIVES AWAY FOLKS WHO ARE PAYING BIG DOLLARS TO > BE >> CONNECTED WHEN THEY CRUISE OR VOYAGE. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
