I am at a loss to read these statements as Art criticism,
Pedagogy,
Historical Romance, or what?

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

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Richard, I'm afraid I don't understand you. And I doubt if anybody
else does either.

For some inexplicable reason you have reverted back to
Shakesperian
poetry.

Come back to plain American English. Try the other English (or
Irish)
playright and iconoclast, George Bernard Shaw.

And I hope you don't object if I begin some of my sentences with
'And'.
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Reg, G4FGQ

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And why would you want to do that, Reg? I thought that only people
of my cultural persuasion began their sentences with 'And'.
G.B. Shaw had his moments. He once wrote, "If you do not say
a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all,
since nobody will trouble themselves about anything that does not
trouble them."
73,
Tom Donaly, KA6RUH
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Tom,

Your particular cultural persuasion really doesn't really enter the
discussion. It could be North American Red Indian. It sounds OK by me.
I imagine most spoken languages admit to the use of 'and' anywhere
within the spoken sentence. It is only natural that occasionally it
should appear at the beginning of the written sentence.

I mentioned it to my friend Richard Clark because of the possibility,
of so doing, it may cause irritation and thereby draw his attention to
what I was waffling about. There are some silly academic objections to
the use of 'And' at the beginning of a written sentence.

I was unaware of G.B.Shaw's ideas on how to conduct an irritating
conversation. Thank you very much for drawing my attention to his
remarks.

It is also pleasing to learn that some US citizens are familiar with
the works, not just the plays, of GBS. His works have been turned by
Hollywood into film - such as Ingrid Bergman as "Saint Joan". But
GBS was not happy with the script. The political content of his play
was distorted beyond recognition. But that's just Hollywood's
pro-american propaganda for you.
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Reg, G4FGQ