Sara Moffat Lorimer    671855 Sat, 27 Sep 03 10:36 PM DE781 wrote some stuff, then left at the end: "did not see a problem in such a" "short sentence when supplying an answer to a direct question. ... (Am I dashing enough now to earn favor with you?)" DE781, will you please start trimming your posts, especially at the end? It's not just you AUE is bad this way but your post caught my eye. SML please remove your hat when sending me e-mail http://pirate-women.com Sara Moffat Lorimer Sentences, Direct Questions

	Skitt    671856 Sat, 27 Sep 03 10:36 PM "I may drift off at times, but that was not ... Now, in Latvian or German that's a different story!" "Not being any set rules?" Right. There are sentences in which in certain applications commas are optional and depend on a judgment call concerning the length of a clause, be it dependent or independent. "You mean Latvian and German have even STRICTER rules of punctuation?" You betcha! I recall the dread of having to take dictation in class of a piece by one particular Latvian writer one who loved sentences that ran for half a page or longer. The emphasis was on punctuating it correctly, as Latvian spelling is fairly straightforward, yet, quite a few students managed to screw that up too. I was lucky in that in our Latvian high school in the DP camp in Germany our teachers were professors who used to teach at the University of Latvia. They were a very qualified bunch, and I was taught well, but that was for writing in Latvian. The same rules do not apply in English. Skitt (in Hayward, California) www.geocities.com/opus731/ Skitt Universities, Spelling, Commas, Clauses, Sentences, Countries, United Kingdom, Great Britain, United States, Writing, Punctuation, Students, Schools, Languages

	DE781    671934 Sun, 28 Sep 03 12:38 AM "DE781, will you please start trimming your posts, especially at the end? It's not just you AUE is bad this way but your post caught my eye" This is frustrating. I used to get yelled at for not quoting ENOUGH in each post. How do I know how much to quote and how much to leave and how much to cut? DE781

	Maria Conlon    671960 Sun, 28 Sep 03 01:28 AM "DE781, will you please start trimming your posts, especially at ... bad this way but your post caught my eye" "This is frustrating. I used to get yelled at for not quoting ENOUGH in each post. How do I know how much to quote and how much to leave and how much to cut?" As with everything in life, use your intelligence guided by your experience. Or your experience guided by your intelligence. Either way, the advice is from Nero Wolfe, and you can't do better than that. Maria Conlon Maria Conlon

	Sara Moffat Lorimer    671976 Sun, 28 Sep 03 01:43 AM "This is frustrating. I used to get yelled at for not quoting ENOUGH in each post. How do I know how much to quote and how much to leave and how much to cut?" A post is too long if I have to scroll through it. SML please remove your hat when sending me e-mail http://pirate-women.com Sara Moffat Lorimer

	Reinhold Rey Aman    671994 Sun, 28 Sep 03 03:39 AM Please be aware that the *in my opinion* lonely & busybodying pain-in-the-ass St. Padraig Breathnach (a.k.a. "Some") considers posting your "commercial" Web site link to be "out of order." To quote that obnoxious busybody: "Some might also think that posting the website link in a non-commercial group was out of order." + Padraig Breathnach, 26 Sept 2003 Reinhold (Rey) Aman, Publisher MALEDICTA PRESS P.O. Box 14123 Santa Rosa, CA 95402, USA http://www.maledicta.ORG/ Reinhold Rey Aman

	Reinhold Rey Aman    671999 Sun, 28 Sep 03 03:48 AM "This is frustrating. I used to get yelled at for ... and how much to leave and how much to cut?" "A post is too long if I have to scroll through it." This is utter nonsense. Attention-span problems, SML? "SML please remove your hat when sending me e-mail http://pirate-women.com" Please be aware that the *in my opinion* lonely & busybodying pain-in-the-ass St. Padraig Breathnach (a.k.a. "Some") considers posting your "commercial" Web site link to be "out of order." To quote that obnoxious busybody: "Some might also think that posting the website link in a non-commercial group was out of order." + Padraig Breathnach, 26 Sept 2003 Reinhold (Rey) Aman, Publisher MALEDICTA PRESS P.O. Box 14123 Santa Rosa, CA 95402, USA http://www.maledicta.ORG/ Reinhold Rey Aman

	DE781    672002 Sun, 28 Sep 03 03:52 AM SML: "A post is too long if I have to scroll through it." But that's ridiculous. What if someone just so happens to type a novel? I mean, there are going to be posts that we'll have to scroll through. That's just the way it is. I was under the impression that you were saying my posts were too long because of QUOTES, though. DE781

	R J Valentine    672006 Sun, 28 Sep 03 04:22 AM } SML: } }> }>A post is too long if I have to scroll through it. } } But that's ridiculous. What if someone just so happens to type a novel? ... Oy! R. J. Valentine Isn't "so" a negative-polarity item (tm)? R J Valentine Negatives