Posted on 07/22/2011 10:38:30 AM PDT by nickcarraway
I'm a comma abuser but I pair the last two items sans comma as the American response to British tyranny.
somebody has too much time on their hands...
"Hi, my name is hoosierham, and I'm a puctuation abuser...."
I was always taught never to use a serial comma, and never have. Glad to see the People Who Are In Charge Of Such Things came around to my way of thinking. :D
That said, unneeded punctuation can lead to grammatical aberrations such as: “Angry constituents told United States Senator, Harry Reid, to go jump in the lake.”
Eschew unneeded commas. Your keyboard will thank you.
They came and took away the commas but i did nothing because I wrote run-on sentences and had no need to separate my thoughts and ideas so my pillow is very comfortable. Then they took away the period but I did nothing because I only twittered - then they took away capitalization but i did nothing because i was a fan of a a milne butnowtheyhavetakenawaymyspacekeyandthereisnoonetohelpme
Except for that one. :)
People are too afraid to come across as dumb and uneducated and hence discounted so were forced to learn to write properly.
Going on geek overdrive...(warning, C++ ahead)
Comma operator ( , )
The comma operator (,) is used to separate two or more expressions that are included where only one expression is expected. When the set of expressions has to be evaluated for a value, only the rightmost expression is considered.
For example, the following code:
a = (b=3, b+2);
Would first assign the value 3 to b, and then assign b+2 to variable a. So, at the end, variable a would contain the value 5 while variable b would contain value 3.
I personally have never used the “Oxford comma”.
Step away from the keyboard...
OoPS. I meant to say ‘bargaining and depression’ needs a comma because the words are not related in the sentence.
How about the possessive apostrophe “s” for names or words ending in the letter “s”? Who said it was proper to write “Williams’s”, as in belonging to the Williams family? The proper way is Williams’. No second “s”. To me, as someone who has a last name ending in “s”, the former will never be correct. The nuns made sure I remembered that one, and God bless them. Perhaps elementary schools should go back to diagramming sentences.
Has — taken the place of ;.
Some people -.
Others—.but,;gives me fit’s.
,
I’ll try again.
Has taken the place of ;?
Some people -.
Others.but, ; gives me fits.
A subject near and dear to your English major heart.
I remember being taught the ‘new’ style way in grade school but as I got older I took up the Oxford style they now want to dump for exactly the author’s point about distinguishing elements versus pairings.
LOL. Me too.
Don't forget about that good old security blanket...the elipsis. I love that sucker.
I don’t claim to be a expert on Granmma.
Cuz, I know it will tic off Gramps.
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