- From: Michael Kay <mhk@mhk.me.uk>
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 21:34:22 +0100
- To: "'Daniel Barclay'" <daniel@fgm.com>
- Cc: <public-qt-comments@w3.org>
> > > > Good writers of English know when to break that rule. > > Oh, great. I try to help clarify the specification and you start > off with an ad hominem attack. No, not at all, it was an ad hominem defence of the editor. > So, how do you argue that the comma isn't wrong and shouldn't be a > semicolon (or other alternatives)? Lynne Truss: "Now, so many highly respected writers adopt the splice comma that a rather unfair rules emerges on this one: only do it if you're famous.... E. M. Forster did it; Smoerset Maugham did it; the list is endless. Done knowingly by an established writer, the comma splice is effective, poetic, dashing... Done ignorantly by ignorant people, it is awful." Norm Walsh is famous, give him the benefit of the doubt. [sic]. Michael Kay
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