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>> at this very point. & sometimes Unless you're a famous writer, isn't that against the law? I thought you're supposed to start a sentence with a capital let
by kreeben 5y ago
>> at this very point. & sometimes
Unless you're a famous writer, isn't that against the law?
I thought you're supposed to start a sentence with a capital letter, or can anything follow a hard stop? E.g. is this kosher (?):
Microsoft copied Java. .net, they called it.
Final question; what if your name is kreeben with a lowercase 'k', is this kosher:
Grammar is hard. kreeben does not understand it.
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- __s 5y agoThat's kosher Writing has no laws, only rules meant to be broken English is also a descriptivist language, rather than prescriptivist. ie English has no spec, unlike French (tho you then have French as it is spoken & French as it is specified). As much as Oxford might want to reign it in, they are only cataloging what the collective spews Examples of miniscule starts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/of_Montreal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/of_Montreal where the band's name is always "of Montreal"
- msla 5y ago> (tho you then have French as it is spoken & French as it is specified) Which means French has no spec, either, merely people trying to create a specification and failing.
- tsimionescu 5y ago>(tho you then have French as it is spoken & French as it is specified) You missed an excellent chance to say 'French as she is spoke' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_as_She_Is_Spoke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_as_She_Is_Spoke
- GavinMcG 5y agoThose are both fine because they're proper names. Using "&" in place of the word "and" does depart from common usage (though there's no "law") and does so in such an overt way that it appears pretentious.