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    Quote Originally Posted by Shardnax View Post
    What a long sentence .
    Truly? I feel that, in any ultimate assessment of a wide range of sentences, feel that there are examples of lengthy and verbose sentences, frequently involving the profligate use of prepositional clauses and other subordinate grammatical constructs daisy-chained together into an illegible morass, that could be considered to rival or exceed the longest sentence in that post: in this example, the extension by using an appositive independent clause (this very one, as a matter of fact, though one can be excused for not necessarily understanding grammatical terminology that rarely occurs in practical usage) to extend the sentence far beyond meaningfully practical bounds, and thus serves primarily as an artificial construct that merely demonstrates that the use of rigorously proper grammar, in and of itself, does not necessarily promote the practical functions of language (i.e. to facilitate ease of effective and efficacious communication in a conventional context), but rather promotes lexical ambiguity; ultimately, however, such use of these artifices does promote a certain degree of amusement, and in serving in such an example, itself communicates the fundamental ideal inherent to the conventional use of grammar, wherein while promulgating a set of rigorous strictures and dictates in order to restrict potential arbitrary and acoherent usage of language permits a certain vernacular standard of linguistic and syntactic layouts and structuring that can be taken as a functional baseline from which effective communication can be derived and maintained, the dogmatic adherence to such stringent syntactic specifications outside of a purely axiomatic context from whence such standards were originally codified would, rather than promoting vernacular comprehension, contrariwise simply serve to obfuscate and confuse the fundamental issues at hand - this, I must hasten to add, does not necessarily mean that the entire extent of this sentence must be taken to serve as rigorously grammatical and syntactically appropriate in every particular, if only for the sole reason that such a monstrosity, were it to exist in any context outside of the particular circumstance that has led up to this (which is to say, as a ludicrous and hyperbolic reply to a passing comment), would be taken out into the street and shot by any self-respecting grammatical expert.

    And I think it's time for me to go nighty-bye.
    Last edited by Mistral; 11th-November-2011 at 04:38.

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