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Re: Circumfixes?

From:Douglas Koller, Latin & French <latinfrench@...>
Date:Thursday, June 7, 2001, 14:38
Robert wrote:

>Generally, most of >my sentances seem to hover just below the edge of what Microsoft Word >considers a "long sentance."
Back when I was translating in Taiwan, I'd often get the dreaded green line under a sentence. Grammarcheck would then tell me I had written a run-on sentence. I'd go back and reread it, and it flowed and made perfect sense to me. "True, it's a *complex* sentence," I'd indulge myself, "but not a run-on sentence." I've since learned to ignore Grammarcheck entirely, since I'm not writing for "Teen Beat", and to use Spellcheck judiciously, as it allows such mistakes as "Oh, what a beautiful mourning!". Kou

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Robert Hailman <robert@...>