Re: question: bulleted lists and periods

Subject: Re: question: bulleted lists and periods
From: "David M. Brown" <dmbrown -at- BROWN-INC -dot- COM>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 11:06:41 -0700

Steve Pendleton wrote:
>
> But a simple bulleted list really is just an orthographic variation
> of a comma-delimited list.
>
> The bullets are a typesetting device to open up the list to make it
> easier to read. They don't change the underlying grammar.

Indeed--that's precisely the logic behind the argument for parallel
construction in such a list.

But if you carry the "it's just an expanded sentence" argument to
its logical end, you get hideous structures like this:

Spot:
* ran north up the block,
* chased a drunken badger,
* rolled over three times, and
* barfed on the Smiths' petunias.

--David

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