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Need help with a Writing Problem, Please
Aakaakaak:
--- Quote from: meh on May 14, 2010, 05:23:59 PM ---Do I need to get you a Rumpole collection?
She Who Must Be Obeyed.
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Um...what exactly is a Rumpole collection?
roger on the SWMBO definition.
Reil:
--- Quote from: neurovore on May 07, 2010, 04:47:38 PM ---Also; people whose "goal is to be widely read" don't sell novels. People who can write a decent book sell novels.
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Plenty of people write unnecessarily long sentences when an extra period here and there would make the phrase easier to read without changing the meaning at all, nor significantly altering the flow of the language. They unnecessarily alienate a portion of their potential audience. Keeping that in consideration is not a bad thing. No one is saying that should be the foremost nor even a primary concern, but it ought to be considered.
meh:
Rumpole:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumpole_of_the_Bailey
--- Quote from: Reil on May 14, 2010, 08:46:58 PM ---Plenty of people write unnecessarily long sentences when an extra period here and there would make the phrase easier to read without changing the meaning at all, nor significantly altering the flow of the language. They unnecessarily alienate a portion of their potential audience. Keeping that in consideration is not a bad thing. No one is saying that should be the foremost nor even a primary concern, but it ought to be considered.
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'without' applies to both clauses, no?
Reil:
I'm short on sleep, it makes me a grammar retard, but the point is still valid =)
meh:
;)
It is a valid point.
I think the thread already has a valid counterpoint, also.
Thus: long sentences can set tone to values not available to short sentence users, those values of tone possibly being appreciated by the audiences that do not lose patience.
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