Re: !

In article <1s05rp8.n0uhjf1soffu8N%[email protected]>, [email protected] 
says...
> 
> yoyleguy <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Sn!pe <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > My generation was taught how to punctuate properly at school! 
> > 
> > Every generation thinks it's the correct one. It's just who actually is
> > the correct generation that nobody really knows.
> > 
> > > How do you feel about: semicolons; quotation marks; parentheses;
> > > and (of course) the star performer, the apostrophe?  How about the
> > > Oxford comma?
> > 
> > I like- no, LOVE, the semi-colon (I can never actually figure out on
> > whether it has a hyphen or not...) quite a lot and use it a bit
> > considering how little it gets used in real life. As for the
> > parentheses, they are alright though I think they look a bit ugly, but
> > there are no real alternatives. As for the quotation marks, I use them
> > when I must. With the apostrophe, I always use it correctly, unlike the
> > (ahem, excuse me,) *plebs* who fail to use it. It's always really
> > annoying whenever I see "its" where it should be "it's".
> > 
> 
> The despised "greengrocers' apostrophe" in plural's is bad but
> superfluous apostrophes in possessives are the worst. I send it's
> perpetrators to alt.possesive.its.has.no.apostrophe.
> 
> >
> > As for the Oxford comma, I have always loved it and defended it; if you
> > didn't have the Oxford comma, you'd have the sentence "In the office
> > were the strippers, Joseph Stalin and JFK." (I know, old example) which
> > implies Stalin and JFK were the strippers. Let's look at a more original
> > example: While on their walk in Egypt, the murderers, Michael Jackson
> > and George Washington all tripped on a rock. Yes, it's incredibly
> > anachronistic, but whatever. If you had the Oxford comma, there would be
> > no ambiguity on if Stalin was a stripper or if Michael Jackson killed
> > someone.
> > 
> 
> An interesting, albeit unconventional, use of the Oxford comma. 
> I applaud your fearlessly adventuresome approach.
> 
> >
> > Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
> >
> 
> Who is TED?  I once had a bear named Ted, or maybe he had me.  
> The mists of time make such memories unreliable.  [sigh]

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