Driveby Journaling: Grammar Edition

[scribblemyname]

From Wikipedia (and attested by any good grammar book):

A run-on is a sentence in which two or more independent clauses (i.e., complete sentences) are joined without appropriate punctuation or conjunction.

I do not write run-on sentences. I write long, complex sentences that Nabokov puts to shame.

As you were.

Comments

[alphaflyer.livejournal.com]

Ignorant review? ;-) I had one once that started with "apart from some literacy issues" - when I politely inquired I got back a "I don't remember, I think there was a typo LOL".

And yes, the semi-colon, double dash and parenthesis are my friends. :-)

[scribblemyname]

The tipping point. I had several people say something to the effect of "whew! what a run-on sentence!" in 3-sentence fics (with good, but ignorant reviews), in two betas (2 different readers) who both were right to say break up the complexity a bit), and then today my sister on a non-fictive email. Thus, the comment.

:)

I love them all, so I held my tongue for a while, but...

Ah, what lovely friends! Thanks for the solidarity.

[morbane.livejournal.com]

Sorry, but: it's Nabokov. :P

Sympathy, though. Everyone thinks they know more about grammar than they actually do, and yes, by "everyone", I also mean me.

[scribblemyname]

My day for typos! I'll fix it tomorrow. Thanks!

Me too.