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“The literary consensus for some time now has been that starting a sentence with a conjunction is perfectly fine. No worries at all! Why bother taking care of the reader, gently guiding them from clause to clause, when you can belch out punctuation anywhere you like and have them ‘suck it up’? Well, alright, then. What next?

—starting with an em dash?
) beginning with a right paren?!
̈ gosh, shall we even trail our umlauts well behind like a petulant toddler? This is schon so schon, don't you think?

This is apostasy. No, sit down, Jeremy, it is. I will not have this kind of grammatical tergiversation in my class again. Are we clear?"