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Old 08-19-2005, 04:58 PM   #27
xoxoxoBruce
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Originally Posted by dar512
And long sentences do not imply bad writing. For every Hemingway there is a Faulkner or a London. You just don't run into long sentences much these days. Modern readers raised on Sesame Street and MTV don't have the patience for it.
Right...just the other day I sent someone an email consisting of two sentences. The first contained 185 words and the second, two words.
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