Re: !

Skeeter wrote:
> 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
> 
> bring it you so and so and whatever.
> 
i thought i saw tim yesterday