serial coordination

[Dan Goncharoff]

The first of the two examples was copyedited, but the second was not.

That makes the first mistake worse.

DanG


On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Wilson is exactly right about my motivation. Understanding what was
> being conveyed was not an issue.
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> The same could be said about the following sentence, taken from a local
> police blotter:
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> http://goo.gl/Fy4Ur
> > The store employee said that he confronted the suspect by the bus
> > stop, who tried to take the employee's cell phone when trying to call
> > 911 to report the theft.
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> However, in this case, more people might consider this to be a serious
> violation.
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> VS-)
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> On 1/1/2012 2:58 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> > Another possibility: "… both in style and in the way they pitch …"
> >
> > I think that Victor's point has to do with what is now regarded as
> > "mere" style and not with semantics. I, too, understand the meaning,
> > but, like Victor, I also have a WTF?! reaction to its expression.
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