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Default On waffles, pancakes, and Laura Ingalls Wilder

On 1/23/2015 6:46 PM, Xenos wrote:
> On 24/01/2015 10:14 AM, Janet Wilder wrote:


>> You wouldn't believe some of the convoluted sentences I've had to
>> rewrite as an editor of manuscripts.

>
> Trust me, I would! ;-) At 1:30am this morning I had the joy of editing
> a paragraph that consisted of one single sentence over very many lines.
>

The feu charter for my house consists of one long sentence over a number
of pages, followed by a bunch of signatures.