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Skeeter wrote:
> 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.
> 
i remember him from years back