It's one thing to give up a comma; it's another to write a sentence that
didn't need one in the first place. I think my record is 70 words. Because
I'm drunk, I'll share it:
We are evolving a definition of the individual subject's relationship with
local search-space that establishes oral language and cognate semiotic
schemes as the ordinal constituents of a relatively stable local network of
referents that combine the economy implicit in stability with a degree of
flexibility that enables the subject to develop adaptive hypothetical
responses to perturbations in the local environment that fall outwith the
hermeneutic scope of the referent network.
I'll regret it in the morning.
P
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> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Tina Bass
> Sent: 29 November 2007 00:15
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Hello again and a snapishthing
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>
>
>
> Dear all this Christmas we have decided to challenge ourselves in ways we
have
> never imagined. We have given up the comma which wasn't all that hard I
have
> to admit as most of the time it occurs at a natural pause in the sentence.
We
> have also decided to recycle all of our natural waste and have acquired a
> kitchen composting unit that comes complete with a carbon filter so that
our
> eating area does not become filled with the stench of neglected marks and
> spencer's especially selected organic shrink-wrapped mushrooms or some
other
> vegetable whose name escapes us. We could have really used a comma in
that
> last sentence but are committed to our values and will not wilt in the
face of
> common-sense or the demands of regular breathing. Just don't ask us to
assess
> the contribution of the semi-colon to any sensible debate. And do not
expect
> any kind of answer on the various interpretations of the question mark or
> exclamation at the end of a sentence no matter what the length. Normally,
> people only make a sacrifice for Lent and Christmas is the time to let
your
> hair down and relax. P., we are become Protestants or something worse.
Love,
> T.
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>
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