.Posted on 02/11/2018 9:39:29 PM PST by Daffynition
Ending a case that electrified punctuation pedants, grammar goons and comma connoisseurs, Oakhurst Dairy settled an overtime dispute with its drivers that hinged entirely on the lack of an Oxford comma in state law.
The dairy company in Portland, Me., agreed to pay $5 million to the drivers, according to court documents filed on Thursday.
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My biggest pet peeve in language these days, is when someone uses similar words interchangeably, as if they all mean the same thing.
“The women is wondering threw the dessert trying knot two loose her hoarse cause their is know other weigh too get in two town.”
The woman is or women are wandering through the desert trying not to lose her (ah, ok, it was “woman is”) horse because there is no other way to get into town.
“The cab driver turned the robber into the police.”
Unless the cab driver had a magic wand, he probably turned the robber in to the police, and the police turned him into a prisoner.
I just get so tired of trying to figure out what people meant to say, when they can’t put forth the effort themselves. UUUNNGGGHHHHH!!!
The government schools are part of the problem. Lower standards in media are part of the problem (people used to read the newspaper to learn how to write well!). Internet use/text messages are part of the problem.
But I’ve known a lot of people who cannot formulate a coherent thought. Their brains just don’t work well. It’s all ummmmm, you know, like, etc. With incorrect word choices thrown in, of course. And my biggest peeve are the people who cannot complete a sentence. Their stream of thought keeps changing direction half way through or else they just trail off into nothing —
“From now on, product reviews are going to be — the meeting this morning laid out a plan to — Mr. Smith was upset because — you know — and ... well, like, what are we going to do about this?”
I’ve told people: “You’re talking a lot, but you’re not saying anything.” (Which is actually a lyric from a Talking Heads song.)
.At that very moment, in London, bombs were raining from the night sky. Adolf Hitler’s air force was subjecting London to the worst pounding since the start of the Battle of Britain—a night of terror planned specifically to steer attention away from Roosevelt’s speech, which promised to solve a great mystery: what was the President prepared to do about the Nazis and their conquering armies? With most of Europe already subjugated, would Washington remain neutral? Or was Roosevelt prepared to support the effort to defeat Hitler with American-made tanks, guns, ships, and bomber aircraft?
All week long the White House had stirred with activity in anticipation of the President’s “fireside chat.” On the Sunday of the address, Roosevelt worked over every word in his office, complaining to his secretary, Grace Tully, who went heavy on the punctuation when she typed.
“Grace!” he yelled. “How many times do I have to tell you to stop wasting the taxpayers’ commas?”
Priorities. Because commas are that important!
"Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college." ~Kurt Vonnegut (but he did not know about emoticons)
This morning, I was reading a thread on Free Republic, about Mick Mulvaney’s response to rumors that he would be reassigned as WHCS. (Don’t you love it when people make up their own acronyms and don’t tell you what they mean?) White House Chief of Staff.
I didn’t make it through 10 posts before I came across one that made my head explode. 🤯 I’ve read that post at least 8 times, and still can’t figure out what the person was trying to say. Poor grammar, poor spelling, and words randomly dropped into spaces where they clearly didn’t belong. It seemed anachronistic to find such a poorly written post, on a topic generally populated by educated people.
I wish somebody would design a test, which would measure a person’s Free Republic posting skills. Anyone with a low score would be relegated to lurking. Only those with the highest scores would be allowed to start threads. And anyone who adopts liberal talking points (substituting “gay” for homosexual) would be zotted. 😂
Nobody will ever know. 🤭🤫🤐
Nothing on the Internet is permanent. 🤥
emojis are even more fun than emoticons
Your sure of you’re post?
Maybe whoever did the graphic originally (I stole it) did it intentionally to trigger the Punctuation Nazis.
:-)
sorry officer
>:D
what is the guideline for using more exclamation points?
Yeah but I went to pubic Skool. I’m tired, bored and confused. Can I be excused?
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