Grammar

Starting a sentence with 'but' in my last post reminded me of a great quote from linguist Naomi Baron - it took me a few seconds to get the whole thing ;)

"My composition teachers railed against using contractions, beginning a sentence with a conjunction, or ending one with a preposition in a written text, acts which were permissible in speech. (But obviously, these were suggestions I didn't always listen to.)"

I don't know if I'd have the guts to joke in an academic paper!