Talk:Run-on sentence
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That's a comma splice, not a run-on sentence. Chuck 19:12, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
- Cool, but where'd you find this? Fix it yourself, or tell us so we can
harass the authorfix it ourselves. --M1ss1ontomars2k4 | T | C | @ 02:11, 19 May 2006 (UTC)- Someone else had added it to this article as an example of a run-on sentence. I removed it, since it's not a run-on sentence, but moved it here so I could explain why I was removing it. My explanation for the change lacks context without the deleted sentence itself. Chuck 18:52, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
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I took the run-on sentence out of the intro paragraph. I'm sure it's meant to be witty and all, but this is an encyclopedia and we have to maintain some kind proper level of writing. Moreover, that kind of thing is typically used *verbally* by grammar teachers. It is more effective that way because they can just keep talking and talking until the pupils "get" that the sentence is running too long. Here, it just falls flat. There's been a bit of back-and-forth with this kind of thing, with huge run-on sentences getting trimmed, then getting replaced, etc. I hope we can avoid that kind of thing in the future. Matt Deres 20:08, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
