Kathy D writes:

"Go easy on  the estrogen. Prolonged exposure to estrogen without a break 
(due to  pregnancy breast-feeding or birth control=2C for example)   \
 
Miss Grammar here.  The way the sentence is  written pregnancy  breastfeeding 
 and birth-control are all  examples of things that give you prolonged 
exoposure to estrogen. 

 
~~ Judy here: This is the problem, they may be intending to say   "prolonged 
exposure" without the break that you GET during pregnancy and  breast-feeding, 
where the parenthetical sentence fragment refers to the break  that one gets 
instead of  how it might easily be read as  the sentence  fragment describing 
situations where those breaks do not occur. They are  probably more willing to 
reword it based on telling them the writing is  confusing for readers rather 
than writing and telling them they are  wrong, since honestly it could go 
either way for me. The issue is whether the  parenthetical piece refers to the 
word "break" ( which would be correct about Pg  and BF) or refers to the phrase 
"without a break" ( which would make it  misleading and erroneous)...:)
How's that for parenthetical overuse? 
 
Peace,
Judy  

Judy LeVan  Fram, PT, IBCLC, LLLL
Brooklyn, NY,  USA

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