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I have some sympathy for with the colleague who put a period after the last item of my list. I guess my best short argument is that almost every reader has forgotten, by the end of the list, that the series of noun phrases was preceded by what kinda looks like the beginning of a sentence.
To make that grammar-hostile argument a little more palatable, i suggest a model of English grammar that is a little more baroque than anything i've ever been formally taught. To wit, "Examples include:" arguably is waiting for a period somewhere after it, but clearly
is not, and i suggest that
either is not waiting for a period, or errs in using a colon where a period would suffice. I think i'd be hard to push away from the position that the use of a colon also signals the end of a sentence, and that the difference between a period and a colon is that the colon indicates that words, like "everything on the following list" (with or without a period) are omitted but should be understood. (Or will be understood by any fool or genius who isn't asking themself "WTF does a stack of two dots mean?") I dunno whether the MoS says something like that, but if that's what it takes to keep the period off the end of that list, i'll make the same argument on the appropriate MoS talk page.
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Jerzy•
t 21:14 & 21:21, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
does a pyrite have to have only a lone s or could there be a radical like SO4 or something? Justanacc ( talk) 16:09, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
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I have some sympathy for with the colleague who put a period after the last item of my list. I guess my best short argument is that almost every reader has forgotten, by the end of the list, that the series of noun phrases was preceded by what kinda looks like the beginning of a sentence.
To make that grammar-hostile argument a little more palatable, i suggest a model of English grammar that is a little more baroque than anything i've ever been formally taught. To wit, "Examples include:" arguably is waiting for a period somewhere after it, but clearly
is not, and i suggest that
either is not waiting for a period, or errs in using a colon where a period would suffice. I think i'd be hard to push away from the position that the use of a colon also signals the end of a sentence, and that the difference between a period and a colon is that the colon indicates that words, like "everything on the following list" (with or without a period) are omitted but should be understood. (Or will be understood by any fool or genius who isn't asking themself "WTF does a stack of two dots mean?") I dunno whether the MoS says something like that, but if that's what it takes to keep the period off the end of that list, i'll make the same argument on the appropriate MoS talk page.
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Jerzy•
t 21:14 & 21:21, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
does a pyrite have to have only a lone s or could there be a radical like SO4 or something? Justanacc ( talk) 16:09, 30 December 2016 (UTC)