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Sn!pe wrote:
> 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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