between my literacy team meetings, essay reading and recent nerdy grammatical discussions, I have recently become aware of (more aware of?) punctuation and its misuse; not that I claim to be an expert in this domaine… in fact, I know it to be true that I need some serious help, particularly when it comes to semi-colons; I love a good semi-colon; there’s something about them that make me happy; as if by using them continuously I can create one beautiful; intelligible; grammatically-correct sentence (of which this most surely does not classify).
according to that longstanding bastion of truth, Wiképédia, Jonathan Coe’s 2001 novel “The Rotters’ Club” currently holds the record for the longest grammatically correct sentence in the English language, consisting of 13, 955 words.
Psh. I could take that one. If I wanted to.
1 comment:
i love semi-colons.
also. that sentence is like a small essay.
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