Bridget E Coffman

> In a message dated 11/15/01 8:02:51 AM Mountain Standard Time,
> dconine@... writes:
> > . Add to that, the liberal kiss-butt education system which has
created a
> > system to extend the immaturity of our kids instead of letting them
stay
> > home and learn from their parents' good work and responsibility of
actions,
> > and you have a perpetually self-replicating system of shiny, noisy,
useless
> > lives who need to be entertained every moment, because when they
start to
> > actually think and reflect, they end up running to the psychiatrist
for
> > something to get the 'voices' out of their heads.
> >
> From: SandraDodd@...
> Subject: Re: Re: Federal dollars
>
> That's a pretty long and frantic sentence.
> They have drugs for that!
>
> (I'm joking, but not.)
>
> The kind of stress that will come from that much eager frustration
> won't do you or your kids any good either.

While it is a very long sentence (82 words), it is grammatically correct.
It also did not strike me as frantic or stressed, merely a statement of
a complicated thought. Perhaps this is a case where the reader's frame
of mind plays a part? As one who had to make a conscious effort to
monitor my sentence length, let me say, I don't mind long sentences and I
still use them occassionally myself.

Bridget

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