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From: Karla Huebner <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Periods, commas, semicolons, inside or outside
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 08:08:46 -0500

Written language changes more slowly than spoken, and that doesn't even
address the issue of current slang, which changes constantly.

I personally like having a standard, slowly changing written language that
has room for occasional infusions of colloquialism and slang.

By the way, it's not that long ago that people wrote "today" as "to-day."


Karla

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If what you write today is clear by current standards of style and format,
even if unconventional, then I have no quarrel with it. But I don't find
being unconventional to be necessary to tell a cracking good story.

Darrell
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This thread:

• Re: [TMG] Periods, commas, semicolons, inside or outside by Dean Scribner <>
  • Re: [TMG] Periods, commas, semicolons, inside or outside by
  • Re: [TMG] Periods, commas, semicolons, inside or outside by Karla Huebner <>
  • Re: [TMG] Periods, commas, semicolons, inside or outside by Dean Scribner <>
    • Re: [TMG] Periods, commas, semicolons, inside or outside by "Cheri Casper" <>
      • RE: [TMG] Periods, commas, semicolons, inside or outside by "DeAnna Burghart" <>
    • O.T --Living changing languages was Re: [TMG] Periods, commas, semicolons, inside or outside by "Ken Nelson" <>
    • Re: [TMG] Periods, commas, semicolons, inside or outside by "Darrell A. Martin" <>

  • Re: [TMG] Periods, commas, semicolons, inside or outside by Karla Huebner <>

    • Re: [TMG] Periods, commas, semicolons, inside or outside by bob gillis <>
  • Re: [TMG] Periods, commas, semicolons, inside or outside by "Bill Johnson" <>
    • Re: [TMG] Periods, commas, semicolons, inside or outside by Richard Brogger <>
      • Re: [TMG] Periods, commas, semicolons, inside or outside by "Bonita" <>