[standfan]

[quote author=CTcard link=topic=14361.msg152665#msg152665 date=1452692836]
Starting with a conjunction is another issue. In informal writing, a lot of people do this in order to use the break in sentences as a sort of super-comma. I think this happens because people are scared of semicolons, though often a comma is plenty. I would cop to doing it a few times myself. Whether the Pac 12 blog qualifies as an informal setting is not so clear. It is a bit much that Mr. Gemmell did so three times in a row in that blog post. That's rather impressive in a perverse kind of way.

Most style guides have changed their position on beginning a sentence with a conjunction.

http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/educati...onjunction
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I have a pet peeve to discuss with the above posters, who I refer to as "Cardboarders". Some would say I just committed a sin by not referring to you as "Cardboarders." This issue comes up quite often in the drafting of agreements and other legal documents, but since the punctuation mark is not part of the defined term, I break the rule.

[standfan]

[quote author=CTcard link=topic=14361.msg152665#msg152665 date=1452692836]
Starting with a conjunction is another issue. In informal writing, a lot of people do this in order to use the break in sentences as a sort of super-comma. I think this happens because people are scared of semicolons, though often a comma is plenty. I would cop to doing it a few times myself. Whether the Pac 12 blog qualifies as an informal setting is not so clear. It is a bit much that Mr. Gemmell did so three times in a row in that blog post. That's rather impressive in a perverse kind of way.

Most style guides have changed their position on beginning a sentence with a conjunction.

http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/educati...onjunction
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I have a pet peeve to discuss with the above posters, who I refer to as "Cardboarders". Some would say I just committed a sin by not referring to you as "Cardboarders." This issue comes up quite often in the drafting of agreements and other legal documents, but since the punctuation mark is not part of the defined term, I break the rule.