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Phillip Blanchard · **Posted:** Tue Apr 15, 2003 6:13 pm

One of the two brothers pulled a knife and stabbed Blake in the abdomen at the foot of a set of stairs leading to the exit from the club, which serves Spanish tapas and cocktails to a thumping hip-hop beat, police said. (New York Daily News)

ToddJBehme · **Posted:** Tue Apr 15, 2003 6:54 pm

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by blanp:
One of the two brothers pulled a knife and stabbed Blake in the abdomen at the foot of a set of stairs leading to the exit from the club, which serves Spanish tapas and cocktails to a thumping hip-hop beat, police said. (New York Daily News)<hr></blockquote>Do you think that's a result of rigidly adhering to an editor's preference for keeping attribution at the ends of sentences or just an unawareness that the placement of the attribution makes it apply more broadly?[ April 15, 2003: Message edited by: Todd J. Behme ][ April 15, 2003: Message edited by: Todd J. Behme ]

Phillip Blanchard · **Posted:** Tue Apr 15, 2003 8:42 pm

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by Todd J. Behme:
Do you think that's a result of rigidly adhering to an editor's preference for keeping attribution at the ends of sentences or just an unawareness that the placement of the attribution makes it apply more broadly? <hr></blockquote>No credible editor in at least 50 years has suggested that attribution must go at the end of sentences, so I guess it must be the latter. Who knows?

ToddJBehme · **Posted:** Tue Apr 15, 2003 9:05 pm

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by blanp:
No credible editor in at least 50 years has suggested that attribution must go at the end of sentences, so I guess it must be the latter. Who knows?<hr></blockquote>And no credible editor would post a 35-word sentence on the TCE Message Board, as I did above.

aneye4detail · **Posted:** Fri Apr 18, 2003 12:40 am

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by blanp:
One of the two brothers pulled a knife and stabbed Blake in the abdomen at the foot of a set of stairs leading to the exit from the club, which serves Spanish tapas and cocktails to a thumping hip-hop beat, police said. (New York Daily News)<hr></blockquote>I thought you were commenting on the part about a stabbing and a description of what kind of music is played all in one sentence. That's a lot of information for one sentence.

knaiad · **Posted:** Fri Apr 18, 2003 4:40 pm

Not to mention wholly irrelevant in context. The description of the club does not belong in the same sentence with an account of the stabbing. It made me snicker, what about you?

ToddJBehme · **Posted:** Fri Apr 18, 2003 5:22 pm

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by Karin:
Not to mention wholly irrelevant in context. The description of the club does not belong in the same sentence with an account of the stabbing. It made me snicker, what about you?<hr></blockquote>I agree; the description can go somewhere else.

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