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yoyleguy 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".
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
>
i type how ever i want , don't like it , don't read it