"Now, [was] 'So, about this message...'"

Fri Oct 27 00:13:08 UTC 2006

At 10/26/2006 05:52 PM, arnold wrote:
>my "conversational" writing style (as on the Language Log) includes
>sentence-initial "now", and "well" as well.  i've been writing like
>this for many decades.

Shame on you, Arnold! :-)  I bet you didn't have a mother who was a
high school English teacher.

Shouldn't one expect news reporters to be more formal?  And they're
wasting air time.

Joel

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