Posted on 07/22/2011 10:38:30 AM PDT by nickcarraway
In 1960, Miss Paula Wells, in her first year of teaching 4th grade at the Stewart Avenue Elementary School, taught me that the Oxford comma was optional.
Nothing else was optional at the Stewart Avenue Elementary School in 1960.
Thank you, Miss Wells!
LOL! Not really. :)
I’m with you.
I’ll continue using a serial comma regardless.
The entire CD is pretty good. I got into this band after hearing them on Pandora One a couple of years ago.
I really have no idea what the lyrics mean, but you can find them here: http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858674277/
I want the world to adopt picas as the primary unit of measurement.
I think it was during the Crimean War.
Is it just me, or is it less appropriate for males to over use exclamation points, than females?
My understanding is that only Biblical names, such as Jesus and Moses, do not need an apostrophe and an “s” to show possession. Therefore, Jesus’ and Moses’ are correct, but you’d type “The Williams’s house” or “Les’s girlfriend.”
Can we, continue to use, the Shatner comma?
What about the Victor Borge “phonetic pronunciation” comma?
My understanding is that your understanding is mistaken.
The nuns drilled the Oxford comma into my subconscious, as well as: “NO extra “S” for ANY pluralization of ANY word ending in “S”. A simple apostrophe is adequate for the literate.” Sister Anna, St. Anthony’s Elementary ca mid 1960’s.
Then why is it Bridget Jones’s Diary and not Bridget Jones’ Diary?
Because Hollywood is clueless?
Just because you can find an example or two of an error does not change the fact that it is an error.
Irregardless, the irredundancy of this conversation is irredundant. Relevantly speaking, that is.
(Just a couple of common examples of other peeves that are commonly accepted errors).
Brilliant! I’m still Laughing Out Loud.
Thanks! Leni!
I also love! And use ! a lot!
>> so write ‘a, b and c’ not ‘a, b, and c’.”
The comma as shown in the former is somewhat of a legal, and logical necessity opposed to being just a legal and logical one.
They took away some letters too...lol I have a hard time deciphering emails from my children, they don’t write- they text.
a a milne reference is perhaps more likely e e cummings; yet, your post is very fun!
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