Doug Kanter wrote:

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"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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I may still hold the record for longest sentence ever written in
freshman advanced English placement at a certain university in the
midwest. Nearly 1000 words, full of phrases, semicolons, and commas,
perfect grammar, and absolute nonsense. Even then, I knew my specialty
would be nonsense!

I had a college professor who would have failed you for using a "run on"
sentence.

A 1000 word sentence is not the work of a proficient author.




I believe Harry already admitted his guilt.


Indeed, Doug. The grad student conducting the placement "exam" offered
us advanced placement if we could prove we had sufficient skills in
English. He offered me the chalk, and I filled up six blackboards with
perfectly punctuated "extemporaneously" written English. Actually, it
was a sort of mini essay off the top of my head on Theodore Dreiser, an
American writer I sort of concentrated on in high school English
classes. So, while the "essay" was based in fact -the life and writings
of Dreiser- I had him starting out life in a Dickens novel.

Life was so much simpler in those days.



--
"There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in
Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me -
you can't get fooled again." -George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept.
17, 2002