David Rastall wrote: > And (as long as you're monitoring my grammar ;-) ;-) please excuse > my beginning the sentence with a conjunction)
But I wasn't monitoring your grammar; I was just counting question marks. And you weren't around for the great start-a-sentence-with-a-question-mark debate, in which I pointed out that the best writers of English literature start sentences with conjunctions all the time. It was a great victory for statistical evidence and a great annoyance to those narrow-minded readers on this list who have the peculiar notion that we should be talking about the lute. > it also seems like a bit > of a leap of logic for these experts to assert that early familiarity > with sonata-allegro form will make you a better person. Ah, but the premise is self-evident. Just try to find someone who can identify the transition from the development to the recapitulation in a maximum-security prison (you won't find one) or the Bush administration (maybe Condaleezza Rice, but that's it). Q.E.D. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
