Re: Punctuation and/or Wording Help Needed --- Badly :-)



"nancy13g" <nancy13g@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1129840020.904915.204180@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> >> "Doors can be excellent symbols of mysical knowledge, because open,
> >> they represent access to such knowledge, but closed they represent the
> >> restriction on such knowledge."
>
> Here's my rewrite (I've left the word "mysical" as in the original,
> because I don't know what the real word was supposed to be):
>
>
> Doors can be excellent symbols of mysical knowledge: Open, they
> represent access to such knowledge; closed, they represent the
> restrictions imposed on such knowledge.
>
> (I'd also suggest ending with "on such access" or just "on it".
>
>

Who, or what, would be doing the imposing? And it's not necessarily
restricted, just difficult for most to access.



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