Writing, Representation, and the Crisis of Scholarship
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Breathing
The comma should give us pause. It indicates a short break in the sentence, just long enough to take a breath. Try reading what you have written out loud. Breathe at the commas.
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You know, Lynne Truss' "Eats, Shoots & Leaves. The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation"?
You probably wouldn't want to breathe at every comma, especially those separating items in a list, or you'd sound asthmatic. Shouldn't you distinguish between commas separating whole clauses and those merely separating words in a series?
"Something out of childhood whistles through this space, a sense of games and half-made selves, but it’s not that you’re pretending to be someone else. You’re pretending to be exactly who you are. That’s the curious thing."
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You know, Lynne Truss' "Eats, Shoots & Leaves. The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation"?
Very funny!
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Puk Degnegaard
You probably wouldn't want to breathe at every comma, especially those separating items in a list, or you'd sound asthmatic. Shouldn't you distinguish between commas separating whole clauses and those merely separating words in a series?
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