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.
Posted: 18th, April 2008 | In: Twitterings Comments (10) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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April 20th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Anyone mistakingly using a colon instead of a semicolon is, quite frankly, without hope.
Very sad indeed.
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 4:13 pm
veritable - perv.
April 20th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Nothing sexier than a well placed semicolon . . . IMO.
April 19th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
I’m voting that we keep PeterMac
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 11:08 am
And then there’s the pathetic absence of a colon in so many posters…
April 19th, 2008 at 11:05 am
sowwy mic , wot ?
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 18th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 1st!!!!!