Re: A sentence can't start with 'But'
- From: Harvey Van Sickle <harvey.news@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 17:03:29 GMT
On 31 Dec 2005, Jim Lawton wrote
> On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 10:26:10 GMT, Harvey Van Sickle
> <harvey.news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
-snip-
>> But I don't think you'll find any standard usage guide that
>> insists that starting a sentence with "but" or "and" is a
>> barbarism.
>
> Absolutely not - I was really meaning that there is some kind
> of intuitive baseline of grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc
> etc above which the group in general has tried to operate.
>
> My perception was that we did this so that non-native speakers
> would see reasonable English reasonably used, which is not the
> case in most newsgroups, where an internet argot is the norm.
I think that's certainly one reason that people here try to strike
a level that's above the base-line -- the other is that we tend to
care about such things, innit IYKWIM m8.
--
Cheers, Harvey
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