Re: !
Skeeter <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | alt.checkmate |
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| Organization | UTB |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
In article <[email protected]>, pursent100 @gmail.com says... > > 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 That guy Alan in the Limbaugh group reminds me of him. -- https://rootbadger.com/invite/i7w9b9K7BUMNXZUDwPUvCxxZYcx4aKXrcoIVKJFt https://ibb.co/q26Rmhn NNTP friendly.