[lit-ideas] Re: Polls: for future reference
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 18:22:55 +0000 (GMT)
--- 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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