Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: HenHanna Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,sci.lang Subject: Re: Punctuation of "more readable" Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 10:02:32 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 17:02:33 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="40c465f551f4d354420c0cb87fb73f76"; logging-data="440967"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18wuvG7FDTq/FL/ovLl/zNwpqjlBJi/f1o=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:AA6ydrwidQeUzDzwV2AcGAPTA90= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 1634 On 3/29/2024 4:34 AM, Pamela wrote: > How should the following sentence be punctuated? > > "the discussion doesn't seem to be on other more readable Usenet archives" > > > (1) the discussion doesn't seem to be on other (more readable) Usenet archives > > (2) the discussion doesn't seem to be on other, more readable Usenet archives > > (3) the discussion doesn't seem to be on other, more readable, Usenet archives -------- not grammatical, or maybe it's ok > > (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.