I worry about posting sentences that are too long. Sometimes I break up sentences that I originally intended to be longer because I feel that they’re too long or I worry that someone else might think they’re too long. But why should I worry?
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April 30th, 2009 - 3:19 pm
I’m guessing that was a lawyer.
April 30th, 2009 - 6:43 pm
Well, I appreciate your efforts. Not that I don’t often have similar worries about some of my sentences…
May 3rd, 2009 - 11:29 pm
I *could* write sentences that long, but the thing is, I stopped punctuating correctly in high school. These days, I use commas for short pauses, and periods for long ones, and I listen to how the sentence plays in my head to hear where to place which.
When I read Julie’s sentence, I heard periods in my head which, apparently, she didn’t.
May 4th, 2009 - 6:20 am
Harvey, that’s pretty much the way I do it too but sometimes I don’t hear a period for a long time and decide to put one in anyway. Also, I often have a hard time hearing where the commas are really supposed to go.