The Anorak School For Grammar
Alrighty students, an interesting little difference of opinion has arisen late in Thursday’s earliest MM thread and its all about where to put commas and stuff.
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April 18th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 1st!!!!!
April 18th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
That’s not how you spell ‘Wheeeeeeee’! You have used far too many ‘e’s, and your overuse of the exclamation mark is just diabolical.
3 out of 10.
See me.
April 19th, 2008 at 11:05 am
sowwy mic , wot ?
April 19th, 2008 at 11:08 am
And then there’s the pathetic absence of a colon in so many posters…
April 19th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
4 chenier
“And then there’s the pathetic absence of a colon in so many posters…”
Good morning.
Sadly many of them are using it to think with, so that later they can speak …
April 19th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
I’m voting that we keep PeterMac
April 20th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Nothing sexier than a well placed semicolon . . . IMO.
April 20th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
veritable - perv.
April 20th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
‘Did you miss school the day punctuation was taught’
Nothing wrong with sentence comma-wise. It’s conversational - the punctuation should follow the thought and the breath (it was the one thought, and, unless you’re an asthmatic, it should be the one breath). All it needed was a question mark at the end.
April 20th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Anyone mistakingly using a colon instead of a semicolon is, quite frankly, without hope.
Very sad indeed.