On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:27:27PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
way to Tower Bridge?" -- "[When I was in England] In the
past, I would
have taken a cab. *But* nowadays it's faster to take a bus." Without
the "But..." sentence, what would the first sentence imply?
It may imply someone familiar with a formal "correct" usage of the language.
"But" links phrases so cannot (in normal usage) correctly start a sentence -
not that anyone actually cares about this rule nowdays ;)
Alan (pedant)