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From: Dean Scribner <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Periods, commas, semicolons, inside or outside
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 00:45:44 -0800


On Sat, 31 Mar 2001 10:45:52 -0800 "Cheri Casper" <>
writes:
> Let's abandon the concept of capital letters also . . . and how
> about paragraph markers . . . how about punctuation all together.
Let's
> abandon correct spelling. Leave the reader to figure it out. Rules
do
> serve a purpose whether or not that rule is obvious to you, the reader,
or
> anyone else.


I actually LIKE capital letters, paragraph markers, and all kinds of
punctuation. But I consider them to be TOOLS, not RULES. Rules are made
to be broken, especially if they can be broken creatively. But I do want
to keep my tools. And as for "correct" spelling, do we want to end the
tug-of-war between the supporters of "judgment" vs. "judgement", and
"licence" vs."license"? Which side of the pond do we have to live on in
order to be "correct"? Personally, I prefer to choose what I think is
the best of both worlds. If you don't think we have a living, changing
language, you haven't listened to your children or grandchildren lately.
;-P

Dean

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