Re:The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements
by gerdesj on Friday July 19, 2024 @07:42PM
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"This sentence no verb."
... is bollocks! Yet, I can see a shimmering phantasm of "has" ... post sentence.
If you are going to create a thing, it needs to be consistent within the framework it tries to describe itself.
A "sentence fragment", whatever that is, needs to be grammatically correct (for a given value of correct) but not simply be a spelling mistake or just plain old bollocks.
I can punch holes into a piece of A4 and call the result "a paper fragment". There is no need to define a term for "paper, useless for printing on".
... is bollocks! Yet, I can see a shimmering phantasm of "has" ... post sentence.
If you are going to create a thing, it needs to be consistent within the framework it tries to describe itself.
A "sentence fragment", whatever that is, needs to be grammatically correct (for a given value of correct) but not simply be a spelling mistake or just plain old bollocks.
I can punch holes into a piece of A4 and call the result "a paper fragment". There is no need to define a term for "paper, useless for printing on".