[lit-ideas] Re: Polls: for future reference

  • From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:00:47 -0500

No, William is right. The first comma in his original version is incorrect. And you're right that your fix is a fix. 

Ursula
you can take U out of comp classes, but you can't take comp classes out of U. 


Donal McEvoy wrote:


--- On Fri, 7/11/08, William Dolphin <dolphinw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


From: William Dolphin <dolphinw@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Polls: for future reference
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Friday, 7 November, 2008, 3:19 PM
Perhaps someday I will learn to read these things before
hitting send, but
since that day has not yet come, allow me to register my
regret for that
first, errant comma before Nate Silver's name
Surely it's just as much the comma after. Actually I am unsure it is ungrammatical as it stands any more than it would be if the name was sub-claused further along the sentence i.e. 
The most accurate prediction of the election's
outcome appears to have
been not a pollster at all but a young
baseball fan, Nate Silver, whose
models for projecting results are based on algorithms he
developed for
fantasy baseball.



and note
that I meant "stated
preference" not "state preference" in that
last clause of the third
paragraph.



Noted. And deeply inexcusable.

Donal
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