Re: !

In article <[email protected]>, pursent100
@gmail.com says...
> 
> 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

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