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Grammar Q
I have seen this used in first rate writing, is it acceptable and how does it effect how the writer ends the sentence.
The dog was dead: its eyes were closed; its paws still; its nose dry:indicating it had stopped secreting the mucus which living dogs secrete constantly.
^ just off the top of my head so a bit nonsensical but grammatically OK?
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>>8084474
Incorrectly copied from a grammar forum; the title of the post was colon within a colon, hopefully that explains things.
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>>8084474
Yes and no. It depends on what you consider the proper usage of the colon.
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>>8084474
absolutely not. even if you get off on a technicality it looks and reads like garbage. why is grammar so hard for people to understand
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>>8084481
DFW uses a colon within a colon and he is supposedly a rigorous grammar Nazi, it also reads well.
> getting off on a technicality
> isn't that what grammar is?
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>>8084509
if you use the right words and know the rules you could turn any amount of random grammatical characters into a functioning sentence, but the more important question is: should you? infinite jest is a memebook written by an insecure author to serve as a pointlessly apathetic monument to his implausibly large and congruently autofellatic ego, who cares about anything contained within its jacket?
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