Is this the only list which would dissect praise to itself?  :-)

This discussion is a great example of how punctuation stands in for 
intonation and therefore signalling of relationships between ideas. 
Commas, parentheses, and dashes (and I mean dashes, not hyphens) seem 
to me to be _about_ the same as signals of "parentheticality" (great 
word!), which I, as others, feel means something like an added 
afterthought in this case. I think the dashes might be best in this 
case because it makes the "addedness" absolutely clear.

This list -- and this organization -- is a priceless resource.

Interesting that an "afterthought" can come before the verb -- between 
the syntactic planning and the utterance.

Johanna Rubba, Assoc. Prof., Linguistics
Linguistics Minor Advisor
English Department
Cal Poly State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93047
Tel. 805.756.2184
Dept. Tel. 805.756.6374
Home page:
http://www.cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba

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