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   TID: hpt/w32-mvc 1.9.0-cur 2019-01-08   
   Hi, Ardith Hinton!   
   I read your message from 08.07.2019 16:30   
      
    AK>> [...] according to punctuation rules, the gaping comma should be   
    AK>> used:   
      
    AK>> "Reading maketh a full man; conference, a ready man; and writing,   
    AK>> an exact man."   
      
    AH> Hmm... nice theory, except that the sentence continues after "exact man"   
   and Bacon uses a number of commas there (https://www.enotes.com).   
      
   I haven't found there anything on this account.   
      
    AH> I understand where you're coming from because I encountered similar   
    AH> problems in my adventures with Latin & French. The textbook   
    AH> explains what we should do... and the concept seems logical until   
    AH> we get to question #4, which introduces an added wrinkle the   
    AH> authors didn't tell us about. :-))   
      
   Yeah, ;) my comment was based on the textbook "Punctuation simplified and   
   applied" by Gerald Woods.   
      
   http://pics.propush.ru/img/omitwordscomma__jw5ae.jpg   
      
      
    AK>> So, your sentence should be like this:   
      
    AK>> "Kipling's cat is male whereas its Russian counterpart, female."   
      
      
    AH>      In a short sentence like this I'd say:   
      
      
    AH>       Kipling's cat is male; its Russian counterpart, female.   
      
    AH>                            or   
      
    AH>       Kipling's cat is male, whereas its Russian counterpart is female.   
      
   I like the last sentence the most. Indeed, the economy of ink is too small   
   when we shorten it by just two letters. ;-)   
      
    AK>> BTW, what did he mean speaking "conference maketh a ready man"?   
      
    AH> When all of us share our ideas in E_T the whole is greater than the   
    AH> sum of its parts. I learn as much from others as they do from me &   
    AH> I realize.. before you need to ask... why I may suggest you add a   
    AH> comma here or there even though it appears on the surface that I'm   
    AH> not taking my own advice. :-)   
      
   It's interesting - if you had used "want" instead "suggest" would you add "to"   
   before "add"?   
      
   "I may want you TO add comma here".   
      
   Bye, Ardith!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   english_tutor 2019   
      
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