Re: What does the sentence mean?

Owain wrote:
> 
> "CyberCypher" wrote
> | > Yellow fever, the disease that killed 4,000 Philadelphia's in
> | > 1793 and so decimated Memphis, Tennessee that the city lost its
> | > charter, has reappeared after nearly two decades in abeyance in
> | > the Western Hemisphere.
> | Second, it delays the main point of the sentence until a secondary
> | historical point is made. The most important information in the
> | sentence is that yellow fever is back. What it did to Philadelphians
> | in 1793 is secondary and the kind of background stuff that newspapers
> | ought to save for paragraph 2.
> 
> It also omits an important point, i.e. *where* the yellow fever has
> reappeared.
> 
Maybe that's in the next sentence. It is sort of difficult to operate at
such complete cross-purposes, on the one hand trying to force all the
information into one sentence, and on the other trying to write only
"See Spot Run" type sentences.


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