On Friday, January 6, 2006, at 01:56 PM, Howard Posner wrote: > But I wasn't monitoring your grammar; I was just counting question > marks.
Ah. So you were monitoring not my grammar, but my syntax. ;-) > 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. As you just did? >> 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. I refuse to get drawn into that one! David R To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
