Re: Circumfixes?

Andreas Johansson wrote:

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> Nice to know one's not alone ...
Indeed.

> >Generally, most of
> >my sentances seem to hover just below the edge of what Microsoft Word
> >considers a "long sentance."
>
> I've got a nagging suspicion that the programmer in question simply thought
> "How long can a reasonable sentence get? Well, about x words I'd think", and
> then programmed the stupid thing to mark things longer than x as "Long
> sentence". However, it's probably more probable that it was constructed by a
> number of people unaccustomed to formal/technical writing, and thus imposed
> a limit that's more adequate for informal chatter.
It was probably something like that. On the computer in my room, I've
told Word not to check for long sentances, but I'm still faced with it
every once in a while.

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> Well, in non-language classes, my teachers only object to outright errors,
> if that, when it comes to language. They usually care very little about
> style. Given most of my classmates, it's not like they need any more reasons
> to lower grades.
:-o Well, I mostly only write things for English, German, and World
Religions - in the first two, the teachers are naturally picky about
grammar and the like, but in World Religions things are more flexible. I
really do enjoy the flexibility. My World Religions teacher used to also
teach English, though, so I can't get away with too too much.

--
Robert