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Re: Punctuation of "more readable"

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From: HenHa...@devnull.tb (HenHanna)
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Subject: Re: Punctuation of "more readable"
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 10:02:32 -0700
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by: HenHanna - Fri, 29 Mar 2024 17:02 UTC

On 3/29/2024 4:34 AM, Pamela wrote:
> How should the following sentence be punctuated?
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> "the discussion doesn't seem to be on other more readable Usenet archives"
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> (1) the discussion doesn't seem to be on other (more readable) Usenet archives
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> (2) the discussion doesn't seem to be on other, more readable Usenet archives
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> (3) the discussion doesn't seem to be on other, more readable, Usenet archives

-------- not grammatical, or maybe it's ok

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> (4) the discussion doesn't seem to be on other more-readable Usenet archives

So i think they may all be ok, including the original.

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Re: Punctuation of "more readable"	HenHanna