Thread: The Conflict of the Cut: Thoughts about Pleasure and Pain

Originally Posted by welshwizard

At grammar school, back in the sixties, we were taught never to begin a sentence with and, but or so.

And Winston Churchill said of ending sentences with a prepositional phrase" "That is the kind of nonsense, up with which, I will not put."

English prof? Why lickthefrog?

Lickthefrog is an old name I came up with. I haven't used it in years, but that's how long I've been an SRP member (since it was a Yahoo mail group). I'm pretty sure it had something to do with how some people are said to have hallucinated after licking a particular type of frog, its poison being the drug. I like frogs; we've got history together.



And since it came up, coordinating conjunctions, FANBOYS (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) can start sentences. Doesn't always make for good writing, but good writers also break the rules all the time.