Undiluted feeling celebrating being

[Nick Armstrong]

… longest unbroken paragraph …

Ars longa, vita brevis…

[french frank]

You've won the award for the longest unbroken paragraph - previously there have been a few contenders for that honour.
[ ... [ Once or twice, I've copied a post by cut and paste and put it into paragraphs, which I then find tolerable.... I suppose that's just me, although I remember being gratified to read a pronouncement by, IIRC, Lord Denning (Master of the Rolls?) commending appropriate length paragraphs, in court submissions and judgements.

I do the same. There is also an optimal length for a line (though online one can often adjust it - annoyingly, not always). In my newspaper days there was also an optimal length (words or lines) for the intro to a story. These were based on a supposed ease of reading.

So I shall copy the (currently) antipenultimate post into a Word doc and study it from there. (Like Captain Oates, I may be gone some time ...)

PS Now antiantipenultimate.

[french frank]

Oh, that's what it is!

[Mandryka]

I think it's rather more beguiling as one unbroken effusion. Like Molly Bloom's. I was kind of hoping one of the composers here would set it to music.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Do you really want the thread to be deleted?

[Serial_Apologist]

I think it's rather more beguiling as one unbroken effusion. Like Molly Bloom's. I was kind of hoping one of the composers here would set it to music.

A lot of legal documents are written without punctuation - if not all, presumably. Perhaps just a particular category.

[french frank]

A lot of legal documents are written without punctuation - if not all, presumably. Perhaps just a particular category.

As in Wills (with capital W):

"Punctuation was traditionally omitted in legal documents and this practise [sic] is continued by many Will and Trust drafters. Drafters prefer instead to use underlining or spacing to avoid the ordinary use of commas."

Still not quite sure why. But individual writers have individual habits for one reason or none.

[eighthobstruction]

One for Around the Horne fans - Bona Vacantia....

[Cockney Sparrow]

As in Wills (with capital W):

"Punctuation was traditionally omitted in legal documents and this practise [sic] is continued by many Will and Trust drafters. Drafters prefer instead to use underlining or spacing to avoid the ordinary use of commas."

Still not quite sure why. But individual writers have individual habits for one reason or none.

I'd be interested to see use of underlining or spacing instead to see if it would give me a fighting chance on the comprehension front. I had experience of legal documents, to any depth, in only one field (albeit that which I composed would be used in the High Court) . The guidance for acceptable documents provided for paragraphs.

.STET......I have no idea what this thread is about - it has morphed....

Thread morph is almost obligatory here, isn't it?

[Nick Armstrong]

One for Around the Horne fans - Bona Vacantia....

…. as long as you use very bold type

[eighthobstruction]

....Ah yes we have a very bold type just so everybody can see it....those Times New Romans always have a twinkle in their eye when ever they get a view....

[cloughie]

Having an undiluted feeling celebrating the entire creative process of 'language', how did the BBC pronounce it?

Sounded more French to me.

[Old Grumpy]

....Ah yes we have a very bold type just so everybody can see it....those Times New Romans always have a twinkle in their eye when ever they get a view....

Weren't they a band in the 70s?

[french frank]

Sounded more French to me.

Sya-rong?

[Padraig]

The few times I heard the name of the storm pronounced, only once was it 'correct', and that was by a BBC weatherman on the BBC News. In NI BBC News I more often heard Keeren or Keern, which was my own pronunciation, and it was spelt with a K, which does not exist in Irish. When a newcomer from the Republic spelled his name with a C, we learned how he pronounced Ciaran - which was Keerawn, with the emphasis on the second syllable.

I don't know how to do accents, so the fada (long) over the second 'a' of Ciaran is missing.