Re: a grammar question

--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "i18n@..." <i18n@...> wrote:

> Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> > CMS has become almost uselessly non-prescriptive in the 14th and
> > especially the 15th ed., and "either is correct" is not a useful
> > response for someone who wants to know what the standard is.

Sometimes there simply isn't a standard, and a choice may be a matter
of euphony as much as anything else.

> > Why are you dragging this off-topic thread on and on? Someone,
> > recognizing that it was off-topic, asked the question, it was

answered,

> > move on.
>
>
> It was not answered satisfactorily and so the question is still open.
>
> It is OK when no one else responds - then the thread will die where

it is.

>
> But it is you that keeps responding as well, keep in mind - and as I
> see, you have responded to RW's post *after* you critique me for
> "dragging" a thread on and on.
>
> It appears that some people besides you and I are interested, and that
> your inability to resist posting belies your position that *I*

shouldn't

> post because the thread is off-topic.

I'm not sure it is off-topic. I thought orthography was on-topic (but
I can't find it listed in the home page or its continuation), and this
was originally a question of punctuation or spelling.

Richard.