Re: !

Skeeter wrote:
> 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]
> 
> Hey, If you're interested. I made a group over at that place about discussion
> of physics. It's called rb.sci.easyphysics.  I like studying about atoms, the
> universe, you know how things work.
> 
yea well too bad you don't work now dummy up before i lift you up