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The first sentence of that post is a run-on sentence. This fact brought to you by a liberal arts education.

• jacquesm 15y ago
  Actually, it wasn't but I've removed the comma and made it a bit easier to read. This fix brought to you by someone with just grade school. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_%28grammar%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_%28grammar%29 versus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-on_sentence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-on_sentence And thank you for making my point in a much more eloquent way than I ever could.
  • jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
    One of the other things that a liberal arts education teaches you is to take criticism gracefully. Just a thought.
    • rcfox 15y ago
      But not how to give it gracefully, apparently.
  • pmiller2 15y ago
    I'm only replying to tell you this because you mentioned being a non-native speaker of English, but, typically, in English, "grade school" is what comes before "high school," which typically starts at 9th grade. The fact that we refer to students by the "grade" they're in in high school as well doesn't mean anything. Saying you have "just grade school" implies you dropped out of high school.
    • jacquesm 15y ago
      > Saying you have "just grade school" implies you dropped out of high school. And that is exactly what I meant.