On Mar 15, 2012, at 12:01 PM, Ron Andrico wrote: > By the way, just to demonstrate my negligible writing skills, I > deliberately omitted a possessive and began sentences with 'and' and > 'but' just to annoy Howard. How did I do?
"Epic fail," as my twelve-year-old would say. You can't fool me about the possessive: I know a typo when I see it. And you can't possibly annoy me by starting a sentence with "and" or "but." Pretty much every good writer in the history of English has done it. I recall I even stumped for the propriety and utility of starting sentences with them in a discussion on this list a few years ago. I did the same in a magazine in 2007. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
