[malakhi]

P.S. You should be grateful that you made sooooooo many grammatical errors in that last post (and others) to me that pointing them out and referencing them would have taken up entirely too much space, besides being too time-consuming! Holy Strunk's!!

Surely a master of prose such as yourself understands that a writer may freely choose to violate the rules of grammar when it suits his purposes? Save the grammar books for the high school students. A skilled writer will on occasion start sentences with a conjunction or use sentence fragments. Sometimes it is useful in making a point or for stylistic reasons. This is not uncommon in literature. Umm, you did study literature at some point along to way to getting that journalism degree, didn't you? A survey course in Major British Writers, perhaps?

[Beep]

I know about starting starting sentences with conjunctions and using sentence fragments. I do that myself. However, that is not what I was referring to regarding your posts! I couldn't possibly name them all; my ISP is running too slow for me to waste all that time, but I will point out one in particular that is glaring: your "interchangeable" use of "that" and "which." They are not interchangeable, dear angelo! Your usage of them as such is distracting and disturbing.

Now, as to your coy reply about my not being able to read sarcasm in your post -- if you ask me, it's a desperate attempt to cover a major screw-up on your part. If it was truly was meant as sarcasm, you did a lousy job in presenting it. That is not my fault, but yours! And yes, I studied literature of all genres ad nauseum. So what? My favorite poet is Emily Dickinson. My favorite authors are Richard Bach (Illusions, not the seagull thing), Dante Alighieri, and William Faulkner. Playwright, besides Shakespeare -- Jean-Paul Sartre.

Any more ignorant questions?? ;-}