Is it because they are afraid or because they think it’s funny?
Jennifer Hunter’s most recent column has 4 of the 14 paragraphs starting with And. And there is no apparent stylistic reason for it. Stop the madness.
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Is it because they are afraid or because they think it’s funny?
Jennifer Hunter’s most recent column has 4 of the 14 paragraphs starting with And. And there is no apparent stylistic reason for it. Stop the madness.
And so what’s your point?
AP,
A .29 “And percentage” is pretty startling, but I rather like starting sentences and paragraphs with conjunctions.
The more glaring problem is that three paragraphs in a row began with “And”.
Starting three consecutive paragraphs with the same word is lazy and ugly writing.
But maybe that’s how they make journalism in Canada…
— SCAM
There are perfectly good stylistic reasons to pursue repeated ands. One could be listing a series of issues that are related and using the And to focus on the number of items.
She is not doing that. I do that without an editor. She, supposedly, has one.