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#182013 - 01/24/09 09:05 PM Re: Writing Help: Capitalization [Re: PastorVon]
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Loc: USA, North Carolina "presposition" a pre-position held by a presbyterian.
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#182015 - 01/24/09 10:03 PM Re: Writing Help: Capitalization [Re: PastorVon]
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Posts: 13659 Originally Posted By: PastorVon"So what if I (pastor von) began a sentence with a conjunction?"
I just thought that not starting a sentence with a conjunction would be the sort of prescriptivist poppycock you'd subscribe to.
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#182020 - 01/25/09 10:22 AM Re: Writing Help: Capitalization [Re: PastorVon]
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Loc: R'lyeh The question was "So?" I.E. "So what if I (pastor von) began a sentence with a conjunction?"
Descriptive-grammatically speaking, and ceteris paribus, there is nothing wrong with starting a sentence with a conjunction. Happens all the time. Prescriptive-grammatically speaking it is a solecism (or an enormity)._________________________
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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#182036 - 01/25/09 02:33 PM Re: Writing Help: Capitalization [Re: zmjezhd]
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Posts: 13659 Originally Posted By: zmjezhdThe question was "So?" I.E. "So what if I (pastor von) began a sentence with a conjunction?"Prescriptive-grammatically speaking it is a solecism (or an enormity).
Naw. It ain't near big enough to be an enormity.
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#182038 - 01/25/09 05:44 PM Re: Writing Help: Capitalization [Re: Faldage]
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Loc: British Columbia, Canada a smallity?
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#182156 - 01/29/09 12:29 PM Re: Writing Help: Capitalization [Re: Zed]
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Loc: USA, North Carolina would that be miniscule?
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#182157 - 01/29/09 01:07 PM Re: Writing Help: Capitalization [Re: PastorVon]
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Loc: this too shall pass miniscule is opposed to majuscule, to be pro forma.
-joe (but I don't think that works in context) friday
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#182162 - 01/29/09 03:33 PM Re: Writing Help: Capitalization [Re: tsuwm]
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Loc: USA, North Carolina no, miniscule is actually opposed to uncial. I just had to throw my bit of wisdom in there.
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#182163 - 01/29/09 04:18 PM Re: Writing Help: Capitalization [Re: PastorVon]
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Loc: this too shall pass uncial - relating to or written in majuscule letters
-joe (def'ns for all occasions) friday
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#182178 - 01/29/09 07:57 PM Re: Writing Help: Capitalization [Re: Faldage]
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Loc: Tasmania Originally Posted By: FaldageOriginally Posted By: zmjezhdThe question was "So?" I.E. "So what if I (pastor von) began a sentence with a conjunction?"Prescriptive-grammatically speaking it is a solecism (or an enormity).
Naw. It ain't near big enough to be an enormity.
How 'bout just a normity then?
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