Re: pinhole-discussion-digest V1 #293

To: Murray Lesher re Latin female plural.
You are correct, Murray. Your Latin serves you well. When speaking of female
graduates, you write alumnae (but not alumnas). Alumnae has one "n," though.
       Be aware, however, of comma splices, as contained in your sentence
quoted below:
      "Not sure if alumnnae is current speech for female
plural, my Latin was long ago, as it should have been."
      Briefly, a comma splice is two or more sentences fused together by a
comma. Each sentence can stand alone. What you need above is a period or
semi-colon.
     Although I taught photography following graduation (my degrees from UNF
are in photography and literature), I warned students that any paper
containing comma splices would be graded as "F."
     Don't feel badly, Murray. Comma splices are common, and even growing
trends in our casual, flip-flop wearing culture.
     For more on comma splices, visit
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/runons.htm

Ivy Bigbee
photographer-writer-poet
author, Optical Allusions: an Art Photographer's Poems , Successful Slides:
Photographing Your Artwork (Art Calendar, 1997) and creator of POW/MIA U.S.
commemorative postage stamp. New web site forthcoming.
http://www.womeninphotography.org/photoprofile/IvyBigbee/index.html
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Received on Sat Jul 23 11:52:06 2005