User talk:John/however

I like to think in terms of additives and contrastives, which is a slight simplification of the grammar, but good enough for most writers. Tony  (talk)  05:44, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
 * "Separate the sentences, which are not directly related." I guess they could be related, but the "however" indicates a contrastive (like "but", which might also be the subject of this piece); we just don't know without the larger context or without asking the author. Yes, in the absence of that knowledge, best to separate, by period or semicolon or comma-plus-and.
 * Bullet 3 is a hard one, as you imply. Given the 11-year timeframe, it is probably incorrect, but ou could be explicit within the parentheses about what kind of circumstance would render it misleading—i.e., the expectation that his 1999 statement implied "within a few years" or even "within a decade". You could choose a smaller timeframe, too, to make the expectation more on the borderline.
 * Bullet 4—almost certainly changed to "and".
 * Bullet 5—I'd bin the second clause as being just about the same as the first.

24 is my record
As shown here. Can anyone beat that? A year and a bit later, none of them have re-appeared. --John (talk) 17:27, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

New record
36! In one article. --John (talk) 14:37, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

21, but some other beauties
Here. --John (talk) 13:59, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

15, on a "Featured Article"!
Here. --John (talk) 19:07, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Latest
[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anglo-Russian_invasion_of_Holland&type=revision&diff=736910987&oldid=725065153 Wow! 23.] --John (talk) 16:49, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

Getting harder to find
Really spectacular examples are getting harder to find. Nowadays, 28 is quite a find! Apparently they exist to "juxtapose contrary facts". Well, indeed. --John (talk) 19:03, 26 March 2018 (UTC)