Heh. That's one, among many myriad reasons, why I got out of teaching before I really started. Couldn't care less whether it was proper, so long as it worked, but realized that grading student papers I wasn't likely to see much of either. (And no, the problems aren't exclusive to freshmen. You can find truly atrocious prose- even worse than mine!- in graduate papers.) Working for decades with folks who were going to obsess over proper usage was also rather unappealing.
   That said, I've stopped the practice for the most part, except perhaps at the very beginning of a post or essay. If the continuation is that big a deal, why not either start a new paragraph, or use a dash? At least that's what flashes through my mind while editing . . .

Ex ignorantia ad sapientiam; e luce ad tenebras

That is the best video ever.

Back in 9th grade we had to do a "Freshman Project" about a "System" and how said system works. It was a requirement for graduation and stupid. Mine was "How a bill becomes a law" or perhaps how an amendment gets added to the constitution. I forget.

Anywho, you had to present a skit of some kind to a panel of disinterested staff members (in my case a surly gym teacher who hated me -- long story, a librarian and a hall monitor). My presentation consisted of a video summary of the legislative process along with a performance of my own adaptation of "I'm Just a Bill." Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster nobody recorded those things.

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