Hi, Alexander!  Recently you wrote in a message to Anton Shepelev:

 AK>  [...] according to punctuation rules, the gaping comma
 AK>  should be used:

 AK>  "Reading maketh a full man; conference, a ready man;
 AK>  and writing, an exact man."


          Hmm... nice theory, except that the sentence continues after "exact
man" and Bacon uses a number of commas there (https://www.enotes.com).

          I understand where you're coming from because I encountered similar
problems in my adventures with Latin & French.  The textbook explains what we
should do... and the concept seems logical until we get to question #4, which
introduces an added wrinkle the authors didn't tell us about.  :-))



 AK>  So, your sentence should be like this:

 AK>  "Kipling's cat is male whereas its Russian counterpart,
 AK>  female."


          In a short sentence like this I'd say:


           Kipling's cat is male; its Russian counterpart, female.

                                or

           Kipling's cat is male, whereas its Russian counterpart is female.



 AK>  BTW, what did he mean speaking "conference maketh a
 AK>  ready man"?


          When all of us share our ideas in E_T the whole is greater than the
sum of its parts.  I learn as much from others as they do from me & I realize
... before you need to ask... why I may suggest you add a comma here or there
even though it appears on the surface that I'm not taking my own advice.  :-)




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