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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 <[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
> 
> Same as tim, copy cat, tries to twist everything around, he tries to play me
> with games I put in the book hes reading. usenet is getting boring so I snag
> whatever I can. We are having some fun in our own deal. Snipe is in there, Tom,
> a few others. Check it out.
> 
i'm too lazy