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Re: Document <> and improve other simultanous music documentation. (issu
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Graham Percival |
Subject: |
Re: Document <> and improve other simultanous music documentation. (issue 6248080) |
Date: |
Mon, 4 Jun 2012 17:00:12 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 11:39:05AM -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hi David (et al.),
>
> > Well, we have two separate complete sentences, and joined with a comma
> > the reader is easily confused into reading "attempts" as a verb, even
> > though admittedly it would be singular and thus not a complete match to
> > "the simultaneous sections".
>
> I would say comma if the "but" is included, semicolon if the "but" is
> excluded.
Exactly. I have no clue why (I never learned grammar), but either
of those options are how I'd expect to read it. Or maybe change
it to ", but any attempts".
- Graham
- Re: Document <> and improve other simultanous music documentation. (issue 6248080), (continued)
- Re: Document <> and improve other simultanous music documentation. (issue 6248080), dak, 2012/06/02
- Re: Document <> and improve other simultanous music documentation. (issue 6248080), tdanielsmusic, 2012/06/02
- Re: Document <> and improve other simultanous music documentation. (issue 6248080), dak, 2012/06/03
- Re: Document <> and improve other simultanous music documentation. (issue 6248080), k-ohara5a5a, 2012/06/04
- Re: Document <> and improve other simultanous music documentation. (issue 6248080), dak, 2012/06/04
- Re: Document <> and improve other simultanous music documentation. (issue 6248080), graham, 2012/06/04
- Re: Document <> and improve other simultanous music documentation. (issue 6248080), dak, 2012/06/04
- Re: Document <> and improve other simultanous music documentation. (issue 6248080), dak, 2012/06/04
- Re: Document <> and improve other simultanous music documentation. (issue 6248080), dak, 2012/06/04
- Re: Document <> and improve other simultanous music documentation. (issue 6248080), dak, 2012/06/05