<DIV>Wow - those are great. Personally, I think they are well beyond what is acceptable, except maybe in an email to a close friend!<BR><BR><B><I>sicola@dolphin.upenn.edu</I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Hi again,<BR><BR>Thanks to all for your thoughtful responses. Not to belabor the point, but in <BR>retrospect, I wonder if my example ("I am a lawyer, it is a good job"/"Soy <BR>abogado, es un buen trabajo") wasn't overly simplified.<BR><BR>Here is an example from a student's paper. Translated, would this be "formally <BR>acceptable" in written Spanish, or has it crossed the line into "run-on" as it <BR>appears in English? <BR><BR>"When I was in the middle of my career, I started to work in a Public Notary, <BR>in that job, I was the assistant of the Notary, it was very interesting and <BR>hard job, because I have to go to many important meetings and advise a lot of <BR>people, and sometimes when I have to go to the University to take my classes I <BR>was very tired or I was late or I couldn’t get there because of the work, but <BR>with the time I got just to it."<BR><BR>(Lat!
er in the
same essay:)<BR><BR>"The company had many small companies and has all types of marketing stock, <BR>like for an example Restaurants, Bars, Real Estate Companies etc it was a big <BR>challenge, so I last there around seven months, in the mean time, I was <BR>looking for a course of English out of (my country), and I found a ELP program <BR>in UPENN, that’s why I’m here studying, but before I came here, I have to quit <BR>my job."<BR><BR>Is this degree of association still "officially standard"? (NB: I don't know <BR>that I consider newspaper journalism to be a good yardstick by which to <BR>measure "formal/standard writing," though it is "professional writing" so to <BR>speak, at least in English.) Does Spanish have no such principle as a "run-on <BR>sentence"? If it does, but these aren't examples thereof, can someone <BR>demonstrate what one would look like? If run-ons as such are officially <BR>standard, I'll concede the point, wave my white flag and accept this as <BR>to!
day's
"you learn something new every day" token. <BR><BR>Thanks for humoring me on this,<BR>Laura<BR>-- <BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><p>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <br>http://mail.yahoo.com