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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 <[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

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onions and some other stuff.

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