On 3/19/12 12:53 PM, Neil Cerutti wrote:
I still think sentence fragments before a colon introducing a list often looks bad, and may be taken for an error. But it doesn't always look bad, and I didn't think about it enough.
One of my English teachers suggested a rule that seems to accord (descriptively) with the uses the "look good" and "look bad" to me: don't use a colon to separate a transitive verb from its objects.
-- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
