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Sentences mightier than the sword. Sort of.

July 30, 2007 by Dave Knadler

This year’s winning entry in the 2007 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is a sobering reminder on the perils of handling dashes and subordinate clauses without parental supervision. It’s also quite funny: “Gerald began — but was interrupted by a piercing whistle which cost him ten percent of his hearing permanently, as it did everyone else […]

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